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From: rathke@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Christian Rathke)
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Subject: Re: question regarding pcl on ti
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    Date: 20 Feb 90 20:20:54 GMT
    From: Rice@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (James Rice)
    Subject: Re: question regarding pcl on ti
    To: comp.sys.ti.explorer
    
    
    >>  Hello:
    
    >>  I would like to load pcl which is compiled on system
    >>  release 4.1 to system release 6.1 (due to
    >>  desperation!).  Is it possible?  If so, how?  Thanks
    >>  in advance.  Please reply to pegah@cpsvax.cps.msu.edu.
    
    
    >>  -Mahmoud Pegah AI/KBS Group Computer Science Dept Mich
    >>  State Univ
    
    I tried doing this back in the days of the beta test
    release 6.  PCL wouldn't compile due to a compiler
    bug/feature that got introduced to support TICLOS (!).
    There was some mysterious macrological feature that was
    very hard to track down because you needed to compile/load
    most of PCL to get the bug to manifest itself.  At the
    time they were disinclined to spend human cycles on fixing
    a problem that only appeared when you were hacking with
    someone else's CLOS.
    
    Good luck.
    
    
    Rice.
    
    P.S.  The Stanford General Inspector tool works
    simulataneously with both TICLOS and PCL, assuming you can
    get the PCL to load.
    

I am curious.  What kind of bug/feature do you mean?  Does it violate CltL?  I
can't imagine that this should only have consequences for PCL.

	-Christian

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