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Tue Feb 11 11:39:00 GMT 2003

Andreas Tobler writes:
 > 
 > >-- Original Message --
 > > >
 > > > How do we call the darwin port? Nearly ready? Soon ready?
 > >
 > >Fairly seriously busted, but may survive given some Tender Loving Care.
 > 
 > >:-)
 > 
 > ;-)
 > 
 > >Looking at your test results, the interpreter seems to be in the worst
 > >shape, although CNI looks like it also needs attention. Fixing libffi
 > >would move this port into almost full health, I reckon.
 > 
 > Let it say this way, the interpreter was much worse a few weeks ago. I still
 > try to improve. And to fix libffi where I can.
 > 
 > CNI is 'broken' since the testsuite wants shared objects which we don't
 > support yet on darwin. If this is addressed I expect a major reduction of
 > the failures.
Okay, so we should ignore those fails.
 > Regarding the interpreter, I'm confused since it also bombs in the area
 > of boehm-gc. And then the Throw_2 does not werk because of the 0 pointer
 > exception pointed out by Jeff in a recent email.
I've searched the mailing lists and I can't find such a message.
 > The FileHandleGcTest is kind of lotto, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't.
That's normal, except in Linux where the OS guys have fixed it with a
kernel change.
Andrew.