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Article #14Re: Franz Lisp for Sun Sparcs Station running sun OS4.1
From: Barry Shein
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 1990 01:10
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 1990 01:10
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As one of the people who worked on the Sun3 port of Franz I'd say the
attack I would take at this point would be looking at how hard it
would be to get franz (liszt actually) to generate C code. At that
point it would port to all sorts of systems more quickly. Hand coded C
subrs are pretty well defined if you look at the code, and that's what
you want to generate in liszt.
As gjc mentioned, you still have to do hand-to-hand battle with the
real-time object loader for every port, no matter how portable you
make everything else. On some machines it's painful to do this, or at
least takes a very stubborn attitude to get it finished. Of course, on
some systems it's not very hard at all (COFF tends to be a pain, BSD
systems tend to be pretty straightforward, particularly if the loader
supports the incremental loader options, -A and -T.)
--
-Barry Shein
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!world!bzs From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.franz Subject: Re: Franz Lisp for Sun Sparcs Station running sun OS4.1 Message-ID: <BZS.90Dec21201025@world.std.com> Date: 22 Dec 90 01:10:25 GMT References: <28532@usc> <1918@paradigm.com> Sender: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) Organization: The World Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: gjc@paradigm.com's message of 6 Dec 90 10:09:57 GMT