Subject: Re: Many broken packages use Scheme -- weird!
To: None <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 10/22/1998 13:20:18
Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@panix.com> writes:
> Is there something unusual about the arm32 architecture that would be
> particularly likely to show up bugs in a Scheme interpreter?
There is a possibility that if the package knows that you are using IEEE
floating point, and knows that the machine is little endian it will
incorrectly assume that a double is laid out in memory in the same way as
Intel do it on the x86. Such an assumption is wrong.
I've no idea if a scheme interpreter will rely on such a thing.
Richard.