[comp.emacs] more on sun4 gnu-emacs

schwartz@gondor.cs.psu.edu (Scott E. Schwartz) (02/01/88)

In article <8801261521.AA03511@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> jr@BBN.COM writes:
>okay.  GNU runs on Sun3 and VMS VAX.  Folks are working on the Sun4
>version as we speak. 

Done!  All you need is a crt0.s file, which is easily gotten by
dissasembling /lib/crt0.o and tweaking a few things, or better yet
writing to Sun and getting the official GNU crt0.s code.  (Which
chuq@sun.com says will be in the next emacs release).  Type make, and
all is well.  Sun also warns that using the -O option might cause
unpredictable malfunctions in emacs, since the code is full of lint
and the sparc is more restrictive about lots of things that VAXen and
Sun3s will let you get away with.  Nonetheless, I compiled with -O
and nothing has gone wrong yet (a few weeks of light use), and it
runs a lot faster than without -O.


-- Scott Schwartz            schwartz@gondor.cs.psu.edu