Re: pil64 Darwin Port

2012-11-19 Thread Alexander Burger
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 09:40:25PM +0100, Tomas Hlavaty wrote: > The asm version is inferior to the c version in terms of portability. Ostensibly, yes. But in general, writing "src64/arch/xxx.l" for a new architecture is trivial compared to writing a C compiler :) -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp

Re: pil64 Darwin Port

2012-11-19 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Tomas, > > asm-pil32 is a project that would allow us to get rid of C-pil32 > > entirely. > > not sure it is a good idea. The asm version is inferior to the c > version in terms of portability. Yes, but I understand this as x86-32 code generation from the asm sources, a kind of back-port fro

Re: pil64 Darwin Port

2012-11-19 Thread Tomas Hlavaty
Hi Axel, > asm-pil32 is a project that would allow us to get rid of C-pil32 > entirely. not sure it is a good idea. The asm version is inferior to the c version in terms of portability. Cheers, Tomas -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe

Re: pil64 Darwin Port

2012-11-19 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Axel, > I am not a Mac user, sorry. I'm mostly on Linux i386 and Windows i386, > including legacy OS's (for work). Ah, OK, I see. I thought so because you gave competent help ;-) > However, I support the idea of focusing on asm-pil64 ports rather than > C-pil32 extensions. And as we said ear

Re: pil64 Darwin Port

2012-11-19 Thread Axel Svensson
Hi Alex, I am not a Mac user, sorry. I'm mostly on Linux i386 and Windows i386, including legacy OS's (for work). However, I support the idea of focusing on asm-pil64 ports rather than C-pil32 extensions. And as we said earlier, asm-pil32 is a project that would allow us to get rid of C-pil32 ent

pil64 Darwin Port

2012-11-18 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Axel, instead that we struggle with extending pil32, I have another suggestion: You are a Mac user, aren't you? Couldn't we try together to get native pil64 up and running on Darwin? I remember that the development state was almost "ready" a long time ago. There were just some problems remain