Re: [Gcl-devel] Problems building gcl-2.6.1-18 on Solaris 8 (SPARC)

[John Tang Boyland]

I removed the last line of the makefile which said that saved_pcl_gcl
was INTERMEDIATE.  Then I was able to make and then run the code that
crashed.  It still crashes in "exit", just like before with 3.2.1:
whatever happened, it doesn't do better in gcc3.3!  It's not exit per
se, it's exit after registering something as a global destructor
apparently).  And also it doesn't happen with saved_pre_gcl or saved_gcl,
only with saved_pcl_gcl.  My guess would that one of the .o's you load
puts something in the destructor list and either is buggy (nonportable) 
or there's some bad interaction with the way images are dumped.

pabst.cs 287 % ../unixport/saved_pre_gcl
GCL (GNU Common Lisp)  (2.6.1) Sun Nov  9 22:33:53 CST 2003
Licensed under GNU Library General Public License
Dedicated to the memory of W. Schelter

Use (help) to get some basic information on how to use GCL.

>(bye)
pabst.cs 288 % ../unixport/saved_gcl
GCL (GNU Common Lisp)  (2.6.1) Sun Nov  9 22:59:29 CST 2003
Licensed under GNU Library General Public License
Dedicated to the memory of W. Schelter

Use (help) to get some basic information on how to use GCL.

>(bye)
pabst.cs 289 % ../unixport/saved_pcl_gcl
GCL (GNU Common Lisp)  (2.6.1) Mon Nov 10 13:22:59 CST 2003
Licensed under GNU Library General Public License
Dedicated to the memory of W. Schelter

Use (help) to get some basic information on how to use GCL.

>(bye)

Error: Caught fatal error [memory may be damaged]
Fast links are on: do (si::use-fast-links nil) for debugging
Error signalled by BYE.
Broken at BYE.  Type :H for Help.
>>
...

pabst.cs 291 % gdb ../unixport/saved_pcl_gcl
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This GDB was configured as "sparc-sun-solaris2.6"...
(gdb) run
Starting program: 
/afs/cs.uwm.edu/package/gcl/gcl-2.6.1/common/install/clcs/../unixport/saved_pcl_gcl
 
GCL (GNU Common Lisp)  (2.6.1) Mon Nov 10 13:22:59 CST 2003
Licensed under GNU Library General Public License
Dedicated to the memory of W. Schelter

Use (help) to get some basic information on how to use GCL.

>(bye)

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x29ea4 in __do_global_dtors_aux ()
(gdb) where
#0  0x29ea4 in __do_global_dtors_aux ()
#1  0x4ddd68 in _fini ()
#2  0xff19bc94 in _exithandle ()
#3  0xff21f8d4 in exit ()
#4  0x2b530 in fLbye (exitc=6593736) at main.c:628
#5  0x13510c in c_apply_n (fn=0x2b4e8 <fLbye>, n=0, x=0x534008)
    at funlink.c:270
...