Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] interpreted runtime broken

[Taylor R Campbell]

   Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 13:45:30 -0700
   From: Matt Birkholz <address@hidden>

   My tertiary memory reports that there used to be such a thing... C
   programs named bintopsb/psbtobin where psb stood for "portable
   standard binary".

Hmm, you're right.  That was dropped in the v15 microcode.  However,
rather than revive bintopsb/psbtobin, I would prefer to make the
toolchain always use a portable fasdumper for two reasons:

1. It avoids any dependency on the complex machine-dependent behaviour
of the PRIMITIVE-FASDUMP microcode primitive.

2. It makes sure we always use the portable code so that it won't
bit-rot like psbtobin/bintopsb did.