Re: Platform Dependent Code

[dhruva]

Hello,

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 4:56 AM, Chong Yidong <address@hidden> wrote:
> <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> How much of emacs is platform dependent code? I am wondering how much
>> code has to be replaced if you wanted to port emacs to a new platform
>> essentially: How much of emacs is native c code / libraries and how
>> much is done through lisp code?
>
> Almost all the platform-dependent code is in C and concerns
> terminal/window system communications.  See the w32* and mac* files in
> the source tree for an example.  The rest of the work is a matter of
> juggling compilation switches, identifying system call names, etc.
>
> (If you provide some information about what platform you are interested
> in, maybe someone could be more helpful.)

I feel the most complicated would be the generating the emacs
executable by dumping a process with elisp code loaded
(bootstrapping). I remember when working in the OpenVMS labs, on
Itanium platform, that was the only missing piece in getting a full
blown working emacs.

-dhruva

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