Hi :) On Fri 27 May 2011 16:51, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> skribas: > >> After having read "Using System Type" again in the autoconf manual, I am >> convinced again that the right thing to do is to add a %target-type >> fluid or mutable parameter, defaulting to the %host-type. We select how >> to compile for the target by making decisions based on %target-type. >> Since in Guile those decisions don't currently need to be made anywhere >> except in compile-bytecode.scm and in bytecode->objcode in objcodes.c, >> this is easy. In the future when the %target-type could select an >> entirely different assembler et al, the "where" of the decisions could >> be moved somewhat; but I think that the mechanism sounds right to me. > > Sounds good, but you’d need additional data that maps triplets (well, > $host_cpu) to low-level info such as endianness and word size, right? Yes, which caused me a bit of agony on Friday after writing that mail. Not resolved yet. Durnit! Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
