[Ecls-list] OpenSolaris issue : Error: suffix or operands invalid for `mov'

[Raymond Toy]

On 6/18/10 1:58 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> On 06/18/10 01:41 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:
>   
>> Use of the dynamic foreign function interface is discouraged unless you have
>> libffi around. Use --without-dffi or install the previously mentioned
>> library in a place where ECL's configuration program can find it.
>>
>> I am not going to fix that assembler code or make it support other compilers
>> because libffi is a perfectly fine and well supported tool, while our code
>> is more like a hack.
>>
>> Juanjo
>>
>>     
> Is this dynamic foreign function interface needed for Maxima? Would you advise 
>   

Maxima has no support for FFI of any kind.

Ray