Re: Announce: PowerPC Port for 64-bit PicoLisp

2011-04-27 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Jakob, > "64-bit" picolisp also portable to 32-bit CPUs? > Or would it take a kludge of some sort? I'm afraid so. In fact, I once started to write "src64/arch/x86-32.l", but didn't finish it. It is indeed possible to emulate the 64-bit architecture of the PicoLisp virtual machine (as document

Re: Announce: PowerPC Port for 64-bit PicoLisp

2011-04-27 Thread Jakob Eriksson
Wow! This is amazing! Great work. I have asked before, but forgot the answer. Is what we like to call "64-bit" picolisp also portable to 32-bit CPUs? Or would it take a kludge of some sort? best regards, Jakob On 4/27/11 1:02 PM, Alexander Burger wrote: > Hi all, > > 64-bit PicoLisp now also

Announce: PowerPC Port for 64-bit PicoLisp

2011-04-27 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi all, 64-bit PicoLisp now also runs on PowerPC/Linux :) So this is the second CPU supported (in addition to x86-64). Thanks to Nikolai Zobnin! I could use his hardware to do the port. Seems to work well: It assembles itself, and the unit tests in "lib/test.l" and "misc/bigtest" pass. Probably