Re: [Chicken-hackers] svn chicken repo

[felix winkelmann]

On 8/9/07, Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 08:41:22AM +0200, felix winkelmann wrote:
> > libffi support has been dropped. Hand written assembly glue
> > code is now used and should work with the autotools build
> > for x86, ppc and x86-64 platforms and MSVC.
>
> Does this mean Chicken will not build anymore on, say, SPARC
> machines?  Or will functionality simply be a little crippled?
>

It just means that the 126 argument limit applies to those
machines. But adding sparc support shouldn't be too hard. If you
look at the *.s files in the chicken repo, you'll notice that the code
is quite short. Any takers?


cheers,
felix

P.S.: powerpc stack frames are EVIL.