Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!crdgw1!montnaro From: montnaro@spyder.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: emacs for an HP9000/520 Message-ID: Date: 4 Jan 90 21:22:58 GMT References: <40009@lanl.gov> <770019@hpsad.HP.COM> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: (Skip Montanaro) Organization: GE Corporate Research & Development, Schenectady, NY Lines: 14 In-reply-to: walter@hpsad.HP.COM's message of 4 Jan 90 17:25:28 GMT In article <770019@hpsad.HP.COM> walter@hpsad.HP.COM (Walter Coole) writes: We have had a number of 500 series machines and several people were interested in porting GNU emacs, but were stopped by a number of features, not having an alloca() was one and I recall a problem with Little-Endian/Big-Endianness. Lack of alloca() should not stop a GNU Emacs port, since the Emacs source comes with both C and assembler versions. I'd be real surprised if little- vs. big-endianness was much of a problem either. That code is isolated, and there is a BIG_ENDIAN define in the machine-dependent include files (m-*.h). -- Skip (montanaro@crdgw1.ge.com)