Daniel Matthews wrote:

> Anyone keen to do a port of POVRay 3.5 to the S/390 platform?
Together with some colleagues I once ported DKBTrace from Amiga(?) to OS/2 
and S/390. We tested the portability of ANSI C. It worked very well, after 
one adjustment, we could compile the code. A simple scene 
(red-sphere-above-checkered-floor) and run fine and a the output was in 
every bit the same across all platforms tested. Because the mainframe did 
not have a numeric processor it run about as fast as the 486 with OS/2!
The adjustment we had to do to compile the code on the s/390 was caused by 
the 8 char limitation on linkable function names. We solved this by 
#redefining all function names with 8 char stings.

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