>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull
<stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>>>> "mb" == Martin Buchholz
<martin(a)xemacs.org> writes:
mb> I fixed all the 64-bit bugs in XEmacs on DecOSF/Alpha, and
mb> that platform worked fine at least until March 2001, when I
mb> stopped regular testing.
Stephen> Yup. I believe I've seen a couple of success reports on that platform
Stephen> since Sept 2001 (when my DecOSF/Alpha box got reverted to a Solaris
Stephen> box), but it's definitely Martin's testing and the not so tender
Stephen> ministrations of the KKCC crowd that makes me think 21.4 might be a
Stephen> little cleaner.
Stephen> Mike, are your guys paying proper attention to 64-bit issues while
Stephen> you're doing surgery on the allocator?
Yes, but I admit we don't have any 64-bit boxes to test on. But the
nature of the changes is such that bugs in that arena are possible,
but not very probable. (We don't really do anything with the
bit-level layout.)
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Cheers =8-} Mike
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