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Re: Scsh on 64 bits machines

To: scsh@martigny.ai.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Scsh on 64 bits machines
From: shivers@ai.mit.edu (Olin Shivers)
Date: 20 Apr 1996 18:46:23 -0400
Organization: Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT
Reply-to: shivers@ai.mit.edu
   From: sjenkins@iastate.edu (Steven L Jenkins)
   Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme.scsh
   Date: 10 Apr 1996 16:36:45 GMT

   Wait until scheme48 supports a 64 bit architecture? (or at least until
   it is not quite as 32-bit dependant)..and then continue applying
   pressue to Olin & Brian for scsh..

   I've poked at building scsh on Alphas several times and keep running
   into the PreScheme compiler, and the static linker.  It's probably
   doable by a human (or group of humans) w/o the official prescheme
   compiler, but not pleasant.  

Two hints:

- I know that Ian Horswill has successfully managed to use PreScheme to
  generate hacked S48 vm's. 

- I know that there is a release 0.43 of S48 that is currently being
  tested and prepared for release at NEC. (OK, I have a copy on my disk,
  so I'm pretty sure this is more than just rumor.) This release does a cleaner
  job of dealing with 32/64 architecture dependencies. I suspect Richard
  Kelsey would be willing to talk to people interested in hacking on
  64-bit ports of this code.

First we get S48 running 64-bit, then scsh will follow.
        -Olin

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