[Openmcl-devel] armcl - fix ucontext_t so we can rebuild-ccl

[R. Matthew Emerson]

> On Jul 14, 2018, at 5:54 PM, R. Matthew Emerson <rme at acm.org> wrote:
> 
> The ARM port could benefit from some attention, but it’s not in a terrible state.  There’s a long-standing threading bug that has been extremely difficult to find.  There’s also a bug where it needs abnormally large thread stack sizes in certain circumstances.
> 
> The difference between the 1.11.5 and 1.12-dev branches is terribly significant on ARM (whereas there are many more differences on x86).

Argh.  I meant to write that the difference "is *not* terribly significant”.



> 
> 
>> On Jul 12, 2018, at 3:38 PM, Ralf Stoye <stoye at stoye.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello everyone,
>> 
>> to be able to compile the arm kernel i applied the same patch as
>> a87d61b88e1f48a563335062668970f7e6290ecf to the platform-linuxarm.h
>> Compiling throws some warnings about implicit declared functions. i did
>> the same on an own branch based on tag v1.11.5 and got the same warnings.
>> 
>> Since i want to do some serious things on the raspberry, i would like to
>> know:
>> - is the arm port stable?
>> - should i go with 1.11 or 1.12
>> 
>> to make things easy, i forked ccl and created branches rs (following
>> master) and rs1.115 (following v1.11.5)
>> https://github.com/ralfstoye/ccl
>> 
>> this is just a start to get more involved with the future development of
>> ccl,
>> Unfortunately i'am not a c-hacker familiar with low level stuff like
>> signaling / threading in the context of lisp (gc.....)
>> 
>> regards
>> Ralf