compile on arm

[Tomas Hlavaty]

Hi Jean-Claude,

thank you for your quick response.

> and for ARM would probably be named ffi_arm.d. But that file still has
> to be written since the port of MKCL on ARM has not been done yet.

I see:-)

> On my side, I am currently stuck deep in a large rewrite of the CLOS
> code of MKCL (with dramatic memory consumption reduction being
> accomplished) that is nearly completion and that will be part of
> 1.2.0. The second consideration related to what you point is that the
> entire FFI interface of MKCL is currently being redone for 1.2.0 and
> the functions mentioned here above are at various levels of redesign.

Ok, good luck!

> That being said, the nearly tragic part of this is that the code you
> hit on is useful only to provide FFI support to interpreted code,
> compiled-to-C code does not use it. That part could in fact be stubbed
> out without much of a loss.

There don't seem to be a configure flag to turn this ffi off.  Is there
some other way to turn it off?

> On the other hand, if your ARM assembler skills and ARM ABI knowledge
> is up to it you could give a try at writing that ffi_arm.d file, at
> least as a first draft.

Unfortunatelly, I won't be able to find time to work on this.

> BTW, I should push out the door a MKCL 1.1.10 any time now as a bug
> fix consolidation release. And be aware that the real action is on the
> 1.2.0 side.

Great, thank you very much!

Tomas