What porting issues will I encounter when recompiling programs under MachTen?
In general, since MachTen is a pure BSD UNIX, porting applications is relatively straightforward. However, in real-memory MachTen systems, such as Personal MachTen or Power MachTen, some porting issues can arise. Without protected memory, a bad pointer can bring down your entire machine. Additionally, it may become necessary, during the execution of a process, to grow the size of a segment to accomodate a larger stack. This is not a problem on a virtual memory system such as Professional MachTen. However, with Power MachTen (before VM is supported), you may need to make certain accommodations. See section 10.13 in the Power MachTen User’s Guide for more inforomation.
