Scheme->C on SGI 4D series

[Mike McDonald]

In article <1991Mar27.061422.28020 at leland.Stanford.EDU>, ramani at CS.Stanford.EDU (Ramani Pichumani) writes:
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|> 
|> Has anyone gotten Scheme->C to work on a Silicon Graphics 4D series
|> machine?  I managed to get the scrt source to compile and link for a
|> MIPS target with no errors or warnings (after a few very minor
|> modifications to some #include paths).  However, when I run the
|> executable "sci", it exits with the following error message without
|> providing the usual greeting and prompt:
|> 
|> "***** inside ERROR" "WRITE-CHAR" "Argument is not an OUTPUT-PORT: ~s" 1001509b
|> 
|> Not being familiar with LISP implementation code, I didn't want to
|> even think about tackling the problem before finding out if someone
|> hasn't already solved it.  I've gotten Scheme->C to work on a SunOS
|> 4.0.3 platform but I can't get it to run on a IRIX 3.3 platform (I'm
|> using the 28sept... release with the MCC patches).
|> 
|> Thanks,
|> Ramani Pichumani
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> Ramani Pichumani                        Tel: (415) 723-2902 or 723-2437
|> Department of Computer Science                      Fax: (415) 725-7411
|> Margaret Jacks Hall, Room 308       email: ramani at patience.stanford.edu
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  This is a byte ordering problem. (I had the same result on a MIPS M-1000!) In the file scrt/objects.h, you need to #define BIG_ENDIAN.

  Mike McDonald

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