Re: freeze for sbcl-2.6.3

On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 10:52 PM Andreas Franke via Sbcl-devel <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Regarding fixes: certainly neither regression nor critical, and I'm not
> saying we should add it now, but if we wanted to support cross-compile with
> known-broken ECL as distributed by current Ubuntu LTS, we could do so with
> the attached patch. Build passes all tests on arm64 and x86_64.
>
> I feel we shouldn't support a host Lisp that fails basic math.  Plenty of
non-buggy hosts exist to choose from. Instead we can detect the situation
in src/cold/shared, and stop with an error message that the host Lisp is
too buggy to compile SBCL.  Other projects have similar pre-checks.
Otherwise how do we know when it is or isn't OK to write a particular
arithmetic expression?

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