Re: [Axiom-developer] Makefile.solaris9 stanza

[Kai Kaminski]

Gabriel Dos Reis <address@hidden> writes:

> Kai Kaminski <address@hidden> writes:
>
> | Gabriel Dos Reis <address@hidden> writes:
> | 
> | > | > | Yeah, most of those conditionals are what make the C code hard to 
> port.
> | > | >
> | > | > no harder than the lisp non-portable sutff all over the place in the
> | > | > Axiom source code.  I don't think we have a perfect language match
> | > | > here in terms of portability.  I've coded for longtime in C and C++; I
> | > | > don't think this particular is stuff is handled the proper way.
> | > | I'm not going to start another pro-Lisp discussion. But I'd like to
> | > | point out that Axiom's Lisp code is not representative of (modern)
> | > | Lisp code. Furthermore the conditionals aren't organized very well and
> | > | most of them are superfluos anyway, because they are for Lisps that
> | > | are long dead and forgotten.
> | >
> | > Probably.
> | >
> | >
> | > I followed this discussion
> | >
> | >   http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2006/014309.html
> | >
> | > with some interest.
> | Ok, I read the first dozen messages or so, but I'm not sure what
> | you're aiming at (IEEE 754 or FFI?). Could you give me a hint?
>
> no, sorry reference to the wrong discussion
>
>    http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2006/014315.html
Ok, I guess it is about the fact that ANSI CL doesn't require
IEEE-754 floating point? Maybe I'm dense, but I don't get what you're
trying to say (seriously).

Kai