Re: Emacs for powerpc64

["Jérôme Marant" <jerome.marant@free.fr>]

Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org> writes:

> On Apr 23, 2005, at 13:37, Jérôme Marant wrote:
>> Hmm, one question though: why isn't it necessary to redefine constants
>> like BITS_PER_LONG, BITS_PER_EMACS_INT, EMACS_INT and so on, as done in
>> the (for instance) AMD64 port file?
>
> I don't think it's actually needed in the AMD64 port either.  The way
> these get defined should work properly on any 64-bit system that
> defines _LP64.

Ah, OK.

> Somewhere I've got a source tree (from before I got hosed with work
> and stopped being able to contribute) where one of my few pending
> patches was the deletion of some of these symbols from the AMD
> support, like I did for the Alpha in, oh, wow, was it back in 2002?
> But I didn't get to test out or check in the AMD changes...  Maybe
> soon, now that I've got access to an AMD x86_64 system, and some
> amount of spare time, I can fix that, and contribute a little more as
> well.

Thanks.

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Jérôme Marant