[Sbcl-devel] SBCL for IRIX? not so far.. (was Re: Stupid question)

[William H. N. <wil...@ai...>]

On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 12:50:29PM -0700, Tim Moore wrote:
> "Fernando D. Mato Mira" wrote:
> > 
> > William Harold Newman wrote:
> > 
> > > Was the idea to use CLISP to bootstrap SBCL, then to use SBCL to
> > > bootstrap CMU CL? Are you [Fernando] trying to go from some platform
> > > which only supports CLISP to one which supports CMU CL?
> > 
> > The available CMUCL binary core dumps on IRIX 6.5 . I haven't seen
> > an SBCL binary for this platform either, so assuming the MIPS backend
> > is still there, I hope the SBCL runtime can still be made to run on it
> > w/o requiring a heroic effort.
> 
> I don't think the MIPS back end has had any work in SBCL.

No, no one has ported SBCL to any non-X86 processor yet. Doing the
first such port will probably be a somewhat messy, since there are
various incompatibilities between GENCGC (used on X86) and GENCGC
(used everywhere else), and SBCL has only been built and tested with
GENCGC. But I don't think it should be tricky -- with the working
example of CMU CL and the working example of SBCL, no inspiration
should be required.

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William Harold Newman <wil...@ai...>
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