I just tried this, on a Thecus N2100 (armv5te) running sid and with a tripwire set on misaligned data accesses (echo 5 > /proc/cpu/alignment). Although the installation was very noisy, spewing warnings while recompiling common-lisp-controller three times, it turned out ok:
n2100:/home/martin/arm# ecl ;;; Loading #P"/usr/lib/ecl/cmp.fas" ;;; Loading #P"/usr/lib/ecl/sysfun.lsp" ECL (Embeddable Common-Lisp) 0.9j (CVS 2008-02-16 11:33) Copyright (C) 1984 Taiichi Yuasa and Masami Hagiya Copyright (C) 1993 Giuseppe Attardi Copyright (C) 2000 Juan J. Garcia-Ripoll ECL is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see file 'Copyright' for details. Type :h for Help. Top level. > (+ 1 2) 3 > I gather it used to have problems with gcc-4.2. Have you apt-get update/dist-upgraded lately? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]