[Ecls-list] Upcoming: cross compiling Lisp->C compiler

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

The problem: the compiler right now has two types of hardcoded dependencies
 1 - Language features selected at build time (CLOS, threads, etc)
 2 - Machine-dependent features (word sizes, bits, etc)

It seems that in order to make cross-compilation easiest we can still
preserve 1. while getting rid of 2. This would ideally empower ECL to build
C code for 32-bit machines on a 64-bit platform.

In practice I am not sure how well this will work: in practice lisp code in
many cases involves some partial evaluation (through eval-when and friends)
which might fail if not written with care. For instance, this code might
understand that 1000000000 is a fixnum which it is not on the target
platform. Let's see...

Juanjo

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