Re: Removal of hppa support

Greets,

On Tue 04 Feb 2020 12:02, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> writes:

> On 1/27/20 4:46 PM, Andy Wingo wrote:
>> William is correct.  HPPA support is not gone from Guile; and indeed
>> it's good to hear from you :)  I wasn't sure there were any IA64 users
>> remaining.
>
> It fails to build from source on Debian hppa, however:

Thanks for these reports and apologies for the breakages.  Looking
forward to the patches.

> I fixed the preprocessor conditional, but then I'm running into another
> issue:
>
> continuations.c: In function 'capture_auxiliary_stack':
> continuations.c:152:7: warning: implicit declaration of function 'getcontext' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]

Probably a missing include for ucontext.h.

>> If someone would like to write an IA64 backend for Lightening, I would
>> be happy to accept it :)  The beginnings of one are there in the git
>> history.
>
> Ok. I assume that applies to alpha, hppa, m68k, powerpc*, riscv*, sparc* as well.

Yes indeed!

Andy