RE: How portable is it ? (was: [DotGNU]Embedding Portable.NET)

[James Mc Parlane]

> If memory serves me right, Rhys Weatherley wrote:
> > Note: it is still early days.  I've managed to strip down
> > the size of the code quite considerably, but it still uses
> > a lot of data memory.  My hope is that we can get a useful
> > engine running in 1 Mb of RAM (not quite there yet).
> 
> All this brings up another question .... how portable is 
> Portable.Net ?
> 
> I know it works on GNU/Linux , GNU Hurd , Cygwin and GNU 
> Darwin (Mac OS X)
> and partially in HPUX .
> 
> But what about the *BSD , Solaris , and other *ix's ? 
> 
> Also non *ixes like Mac OS (9/8) ... and Win32 (native mingw)
> 
> Also are there issues involved in moving this system to a 64 
> bit platform
> (like IA64 ?) for pointer operations ?

Once I'm back up and healthy I will continue on with my hpux porting. The
parisc2.0 machine I am using is 64 bit, so it should shake out some bugs
once I get the pnet compiling with the hpux compiler and debuggable with the
hpux debugger.
 
> Gopal
> -- 
> The difference between insanity and genius is measured by success
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