Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: cross-compiling Axiom

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

root <address@hidden> writes:

| > Nothing AFAICT in the existing build framework.  I just want to
| > mention that GCL unlike some other lisp systems supports both an
| > interpreter and a compiler.  This is primarily to aid in developing
| > and debugging the compiler, but also provides some means for platform
| > independent work.  The whole Axiom system should load and run
| > interpreted if desired, and if one has a massive amount of time on
| > one's hands :-).  The same holds for the GCL lisp files -- check out
| > the saved_pre_gcl image.
| 
| Axiom already does this. I use it for deep debugging.
| The debugsys image is automatically created in the OBJ/SYS directory.

Indeed.  While I was messing myself with src/interp, I stumbled over it
two days ago and I find it useful.

-- Gaby