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authorBryan Newbold <bnewbold@robocracy.org>2017-03-02 23:42:48 -0800
committerBryan Newbold <bnewbold@robocracy.org>2017-03-03 00:39:27 -0800
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+scm for Debian
+-----------------
+
+Like many scheme interpreters, scm has some quirks:
+
+- two-stage build process: first a minimal scmlit interpreter is created, and
+ then that is used in compilation of the final `scm` interpreter.
+- uses `unexec` to load quickly (a la emacs and bash, historically). This
+ feature is only used on supported platforms (aka, glibc), and is likely to be
+ deprecated in glibc in the not too-distant future.
+
+The upstream tests (`make check`) currently fail for the packaged binary,
+because the `-F inexact` results in rounding error (to be expected).
+
+-- Bryan Newbold <bnewbold@robocracy.org> Thu, 02 Mar 2017 20:45:42 -0800
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