[comp.sources.d] help! problems porting SBProlog and C-Scheme to IRIS-4D/Mips

Skywalker@cup.portal.com (06/29/88)

I am trying to port Stony Brook Prolog and MIT C-Scheme to the Silicon
Graphics IRIS-4D workstation.  I have run into a severe problem due to
the Mips processor requiring longs to be long-aligned in memory, and
SBProlog assumes (all over the place) that longs only need to be short
(16 bit) aligned. I'm not sure what Scheme's problem is (this is the one
that GNU distributes). Before I spend a lot more time on this, has anyone
already done a port of either program to:
   the Iris-4D, or
   another Mips-based computer, or even
   any other cpu with strong long-alignment restrictions?

		thanks in advance,
			Scott Henry <scotth@harlie.sgi.com>   <- preferred
				    <scott_henry@cup.portal.com>  <-alternate