[cl-debian] Bug#360561: cmucl: CMUCL does not run under kernel version 2.6.16

Peter Van Eynde pvaneynd at debian.org
Fri May 5 06:58:27 UTC 2006


>This are two bugs:
>- cmucl assumes that the address space on i386 extends up to 0xc0000000,
>  this is not longer true with newer kernel. So cmucl is buggy to
>  hardcode adresses which are not always usable.

Well, not all the world is C and the address-space available to applications 
for me (and for cmucl/sbcl and friends) are an implicit part of the API. 

So there is no way to 'fix' this feature, unless upstream decides to radically 
redesign the implementation.

Groetjes, Peter

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