On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 20:16 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > My belief is that this will not be a simple fix; the ia64 has a weird > > stack structure and Scheme's call/cc is not trivial to implement on > > weird stack machines. It took lots of work upstream to get scm to work > > on ia64, and I think this is the same thing, since guile is a clone of > > scm in its origins. > > Right; it's unfortunate that this seems to be a regression though, given > that guile-1.6 built fine on ia64... I think this is not a regression at all. My belief is that guile-1.6 never worked on ia64 either. The failures are the sort of thing that will happen sometimes, and the fact that the test suite does not, for me say that it ever actually worked. thomas
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