How do you handle caring about PPC?

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Tue Apr 9 01:54:38 EDT 2013


On 09/04/13 04:03, Mark Wieder wrote:
> Richmond-
>
> Monday, April 8, 2013, 11:47:59 AM, you wrote:
>
>> that means porting stacks back to version 2.0.1 and saving them as
>> Classic standalones. The
> As Stephen pointed out, there are *no* modern compilers that support
> the PPC architecture. This means that recent versions of the LC engine
> can *not* be compiled for the PPC. This became an issue a decade ago,
> and judicious patching of compilers that were current at the time
> enabled RunRev to continue supporting the PPC. But with the demise of
> Metrowerks, the last extant compiler that could compile the old code
> went on the scrapheap. I still have the last Metrowerks C compiler
> stashed away somewhere, so once the engine becomes open source I'd be
> glad to ship it to you and you can take on the task of trying to
> back-port the code so that it compiles.
>

Very funny, and not an issue.




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