mabshoff wrote:

> Any clisp release I ever tried to build on Sparc is basically broken
> with anything later than gcc 3.2.3. There was a thread on clisp-devel
> about this and it boils down to tthe following:
> 
>  * the clisp people know which file miscompiles
>  * the file is *huge*, ergo the gcc folks want a simpler test case

Usually a bad sign. Any huge files should probably be broken into 
something more manageable.


>  * RMS was consulted and his conclusion was: The gcc folks need to fix
> this anyway

> Result: clisp is broken on Solaris with any reasonable compiler. It
> also frequently miscompiles with -O2 on any platform with *any* gcc >=
> 4.0.0. Guess why we are switching to ecl next week :)

Yes, sounds a disaster.

> I have a precompiled clisp binary I use. Another option is to use ecl.


> Since it is 2:20 am I am about to go to sleep, but in the morning I
> should post a prebuild clisp.spkg.

cheers. I'll give that a try.



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