ACL Unix vs. ACL Linux

[Bernhard Rinner]

We have a rather big Lisp application (>100k LOC) running under ACL
4.3.1 on Unix platforms
(i.e. Sparc/SunOS). We are planning to install a version of this
application on a PC running
Linux and ACL 4.3/5.0beta.
Are there any known limitations or differences on the Linux ACl-version?

(A critical part of our application might be the foreign function
calls.)

Thanks
Bernhard

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[Matt Kressel]

Bernhard Rinner wrote:
>
> We have a rather big Lisp application (>100k LOC) running under ACL
> 4.3.1 on Unix platforms
> (i.e. Sparc/SunOS). We are planning to install a version of this
> application on a PC running
> Linux and ACL 4.3/5.0beta.
> Are there any known limitations or differences on the Linux ACl-version?
>
> (A critical part of our application might be the foreign function
> calls.)

I haven't used the SunOS version of ACL, but I am currently
experimenting conversion from ACL 3.0.2 for Windows to Linux ACL 4.3.
From my experience I can tell you that it appears uncrippled. I have used
some foreign function calls to experiment with and found them much simpler
to code and insert into the running image than windows, but you probably
have this capability from SunOS version. The only thing I had difficulty
with was the LISP memory imprint, but this is completely configurable (once
I read the docs in detail).

Does the SunOS ACL come with a GUI?

Thanks,
Matt

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[Stephan Pfab]

Bernhard Rinner <rin...@cs.utexas.edu> writes:

> We have a rather big Lisp application (>100k LOC) running under ACL
> 4.3.1 on Unix platforms
> (i.e. Sparc/SunOS). We are planning to install a version of this
> application on a PC running
> Linux and ACL 4.3/5.0beta.
> Are there any known limitations or differences on the Linux ACl-version?
>
> (A critical part of our application might be the foreign function
> calls.)

The load function requires absolute paths and always appends .lisp
in ACL linux. At least in 4.3.

ciao
Stephan

[Erik Naggum]

* Stephan Pfab <pf...@thales.mathematik.uni-ulm.de>

| The load function requires absolute paths and always appends .lisp
| in ACL linux. At least in 4.3.

that's odd. before we got ACL 5.0.beta and could trust it, a mission
critical application I built this spring and summer with ACL 4.3 for
Linux compiled to .fasl files and everything worked just fine. the Lisp
files were not .lisp, but .cl.

#:Erik