On May 15, 2011, at 11:47, Andy Wingo wrote:
> However... note that GCC obsoleted all vax ports but openbsd and netbsd
> in 4.3, removed them in 4.4, and just obsoleted it on netbsd recently I
> think. Just saying :)
I knew a bunch of ancient OSes for Vax were made obsolete in gcc, but last I
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On Sun 15 May 2011 11:00, Ken Raeburn writes:
> So... Guile 2.2 won't work on the VAXstation in my basement, which
> doesn't do IEEE math? :-(
> (Not that I've powered it up in some time...)
I have no idea.
However... note that GCC obsoleted all vax ports but openbsd and netbsd
in 4.3, removed
On Sun 15 May 2011 11:02, Ken Raeburn writes:
> Is that really any more of an issue this way than with the current
> encoding -- if not for SCM, then for heap data structures including both
> SCM objects and integers or characters? I thought the GC code already
> had to cope with things looking
On May 14, 2011, at 05:47, Andy Wingo wrote:
> However, I realized that this isn't going to work on 32-bit, and for an
> unexpected reason: GC. The problem is that the low 32-bits can be
> interpreted as a pointer, so you need to tag those bits to make the
> payloads of immediate values like integ
On May 12, 2011, at 06:17, Andy Wingo wrote:
> I'm looking at new SCM representation and tagging possibilities in 2.2.
> Read the whole mail please, as it's a little complicated.
Iteresting
> I would like to revisit the SCM representation and tagging scheme in
> 2.2. In particular, I wou
