Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!apple!portal!fernwood!franz!layer From: layer@Franz.COM (Kevin Layer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Why LISP and plenty of other O-O languages won't run on the 68040. Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 91 17:58:01 GMT References: <6074@husc6.harvard.edu> Sender: news@Franz.COM Organization: Franz Inc., Berkeley, CA Lines: 17 In-reply-to: clp@home.HarvardSq.COM's message of 20 Mar 91 02:35:01 GMT In article <6074@husc6.harvard.edu> clp@home.HarvardSq.COM (Charles L. Perkins) writes: Apparently NeXT makes the 68040 cache flush "unavailable" at user level (or at least only available through an obscure trap you must ask them about). From a C program you can flush the caches in the following way: asm("trap #2"); Who knows about Common Lisp? Allegro CL for the 040 was released today! -- Kevin Layer, Franz Inc. 1995 University Avenue, Suite 275 layer@Franz.COM (internet) Berkeley, CA 94704 uunet!franz!layer (uucp) Phone: (415) 548-3600; FAX: (415) 548-8253