Re: Status update: CMUCL port to Darwin/OS X

Eric Marsden said:
>>>>>> "prm" == Pierre R Mai <pmai@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
>   prm> I've resurrected the PPC backend of CMUCL and  more or less
> completed a
>   prm> port of CMUCL to Darwin/OS X.  Current status, as well as binaries
> and
>   prm> sources can be had at
>
> great stuff!
>
> There seems to be a bug in the bignum support, that is revealed by one
> of the cl-bench tests; it is returning invalid results. I believe that
> the code in SBCL has had a fix related to bignums. If you want to
> reproduce it, look at file/ratios.lisp in the current cl-bench
> release, and try RUN-PI-RATIOS.

Yes, I've yet to port the various and sundry backend fixes from SBCL over.
 I'm currently in the process of doing so.  BTW, in case anyone knows,
what is the expected number of failures for CMUCL for PF Dietz's ansi-test
suite currently?

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Hmmm, have to play with cl-bench to find out how my lowly iBook 600 stacks
up against the latest and greatest in CL processing power... ;)

Regs, Pierre.

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