[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I wonder if anyone knows a successful implementation(s) of CMUCL on 64-bit > OSes, > especially on Alpha OSF / Tru64 UNIXÂ 64-bit and Linux 64-bit? I have googled > it, but could not find any. Could 32-bit CMUCL be run on these 64-bit OSes?
A 32-bit implementation of what was basically CMUCL 18a has run on 64-bit Alpha OSF1, and possibly also 64-bit Alpha Linux. There have also been various resuscitations of CMUCL on those platforms over the years -- checking the mail archives, and the experimental directory of the ftp release area, will likely yield a few more binaries. You may or may not be interested in SBCL (a CMUCL derivative), which is definitely supported on Alpha 64-bit Linux (and has been seen to run on OSF1, though it has a user community of zero on that platform at the moment, and may consequently have bitrotted a little). Again, released versions of these (the latest was last week) are essentially 32-bit (though with limited support for 64-bit arithmetic in places). Similarly, should it interest you, 32-bit x86 SBCL (or CMUCL for that matter) is known to run without problems on 64-bit Linux on AMD64 (and derivatives). There are ongoing efforts in both projects to provide fully 64-bit implementations; in SBCL the likely first platform to be supported will be AMD64 -- there is an almost-complete branch in the public CVS -- but it's possible that the Alpha will be supported shortly afterwards. I believe that CMUCL likewise has a near-complete implementation on AMD64; I'm not aware of anyone working on 64-bit Alpha CMUCL, however. I hope that helps somewhat. Cheers, Christophe
