Greetings, and thank you again for your vital feedback. The solution I've just implemented would have been impossible without it.
I'm pleased to announce a just-committed resolution to this issue, bringing stability to gcl/maxima/acl2/axiom on ia64 and any future platform like it which may use dynamic function descriptors. (I've heard hpux and ppc64 are in the same category already). There is now a #define switch STATIC_FUNCTION_POINTERS which will ensure that all C defined functions installed into lisp as pointers are static. We were *very* fortunate that compiled lisp code did not have to be changed at all -- only the files in the o/ subdirectory, by in large. I'm uploading new .debs for 2.6.1 and cvs which will close the two bug reports pertinent to this issue. Take care, Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Camm Maguire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > When I first read this, I was more confused by the meaning of the term > > 'local' and what I've been seeing. > > Which is understandable, because I was confused, too. What you are > saying is correct. > > Andreas. > > -- > Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 N�rnberg > Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 > "And now for something completely different." > > > -- Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah
