Re: configure.in support for FreeBSD ia64/sparc64/powerpc

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:

  > Ulrich Mueller <address@hidden> writes:
  > 
  > > As I see, with a conditional for __sparc64__ only (which is the right
  > > thing in my opinion).
  > >
  > > However, one week later there is the following commit:
  > > 
<http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/emacs/src/alloc.c?root=emacs&r1=1.446&r2=1.447>
  > >
  > > So was there really a problem with this on non-BSD platforms?
  > > (I'm just curious.)
  > 
  > Dan, did you see any problem with this patch on non-BSD platforms?

Didn't we have a long discussion about this and the last version of the
patch from Ulrich is cited here:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/108082

anything happened to change the results of that discussion, do we want
to start it again?