Ah, in that case nevermind.

Thanks for the clarification!

Vincent



On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 17:30:38 -0600,
Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote:
> 
> On lunes, 25 de enero de 2016 16:46:58 (CET) Vincent St-Amour wrote:
> >On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 16:32:41 -0600,
> >
> >Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote:
> >> On 25/01/16 19:24, Vincent St-Amour wrote:
> >> > Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado:
> >> > - Add config for linux/ppc64.
> >> > (e957a7d6557f9718ba8493c20675b75a1145084a)> 
> >> This change is very simple. Feel free to omit it.
> >
> >Maybe I'm misunderstanding this change, but it looks like it's adding
> >support for a previously-unsupported platform. Is that the case? If so,
> >I think it's worth including. If not, then I agree with you.
> 
> The support was there (C interpreter without JIT) but sconfig.h was 
> enabling wrongly the powerpc JIT which only supports the traditional 32 
> bits powerpc architecture.
> 
> The work on the OpenBSD/sparc64 support was harder by far because I 
> tried every option until Racket passed the tests. Even in that case, I 
> think that the mention is unnecessary.
> 
> IMHO, only worth to mention the support for new architectures when it 
> includes JIT support. In short, in my experience any architecture, which 
> runs a supported OS, is supported by the C interpreter (with the 
> exception of hppa/itanium due to the weird stack growth direction).
> 
> 
> -- 
> Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info

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