Gerardo Richarte (CORE-SDI) wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Maurice Rabb wrote:
>
> > Has anyone successfully recompiled the Mac VM to include WeakArrays
> and/or
> > sqAPI yet?
>
>         I heard that sqAPI has been successfully recompiled under Mac
> (cannot remember who), but I seriously doubt that the whole scheme is
> working.
> We had (with Ale) big troubles making it run on big endian (Sparc
> machines),
> the problem is with return values, as Integers are always stored in
> little
> endian (Intel) numbers internally by Squeak.
>         Have anybody checked this?
>
>         Endianness byE!
>         Richie++

Last February I worked on porting sqAPI to the Mac, and it sort of
works. As noted, "endianitis" is hidden throughout the code. With a
little work and some patience, this approach should work. However, this
only starts to address some of the real issues regarding external API
calls.

Jim Benson