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From: Francis Dupont <dupont@givry>
To: emmanuel@dmi.ens.fr
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Subject: Re: Porting caml (and coq) to HP/UX. 
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 05 Nov 92 13:32:15 +0100.
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Date: Thu, 05 Nov 92 19:06:48 +0100
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[ Note du mode'rateur :
 In his last message Emmanuel Chailloux wrote: ]

=> Sorry but it is not possible to port an interactive version of CAML
(the full one) on Snake architecture because there is no Le_Lisp runtime
producing directly runnable code for this architecture.

You have three choices :
 - port the Le_Lisp runtime (*not* easy, very expensive and nobody wants
to do that...) on Snake architecture or develop a byte-code version
(no so stupid !)
 - use only non-interactive (i.e. batch...) version of CAML, throwing
away the toplevel loop
 - use Caml-Light who has a byte-code interpreter (note: there is no
really usable byte-coded version of the Le_Lisp runtime)

Francis.Dupont@inria.fr

PS : you have or will have the same problem for all the new RISC architectures
(DEC Alpha, MIPS R4000, Intel Pentium, ...)