Bug#324390: [pkg-s48-maint] Bug#324390: scheme48: FTBFS on 64 bit arches: segmentation fault.

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 08:39:26AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
>> Changes: 
>>  scheme48 (1.3-4) unstable; urgency=low
>>  .
>>    * Don't build on 64 bit architectures (Closes: #324390)

> Is there some reason that 64 bit architectures are not supported or
> something?

Upstream issue. Known. Old. Same story as scsh (which is based on (and
older version of) scheme48, and inherited the issue from it).

I never looked in detail at the deep reason why it needs special
support. Maybe it is doing similar tricks to what OCaml is doing to
have unboxed gc-friendly integers (reserving one bit of the int for
use by the gc).

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Lionel