[developers] Re: allegro 7 64-bit plus CLIM

[Benjamin Waldron]

I've tried running the "test" CLIM application from p. 19 of the CLIM 2
User Guide, followed by a call to (excl:gc t). But this runs fine (no
crash or segmentation violation).

- Ben

>i suspect the crash may occur as the gc cursor is turned on in CLIM,
>since the gc notification hooks (function pointers) are sensitive to
>pointer size (at least i had an issue in the [incr tsdb()] interface
>initially).  a mini-CLIM application, just one pane, and a forced gc()
>call should be sufficient to test this theory.  and, if successful,
>will make a fine bug report for Franz.  ben, would you have time for
>this?  and if you end up asking about CLIM, maybe remind them of the
>earlier PRs we have pending :-).
>
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