Re: [Gcl-devel] 2.6.2.....

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings

"Mike Thomas" <address@hidden> writes:

> | No, clearly not in the sys def file.  I was thinking of setting a
> | breakpoint in gdb at the line reporting this load and conditionalizing
> | the breakpoint on the first char in ...->st.st_self being \r or \n.
> 
> The problem I'm having with this and the debugging suggestion below is that
> running the same sequence of operations under the debugger produces no
> error.
> 
> (Please don't take this as criticism of your suggestions, by the way, I'm
> extremely glad you're offering them!!!)
> 

OK, the only thing that I can think of at present that could lead to
this is an incomplete setjmp flush of the registers to the C stack.  I
know we went around on this before, but then I dropped this line of
reasoning when it looked possible that your FIND_INIT fix would clear
all 4 of the then outstanding problems, when it actually cleared 2
(correct?).   In any case, I suggest we postpone further work on this
in favor of getting gcc-3.3.3 to work if this is at all feasible.
This is the single issue now standing in the way of 2.6.2.  If it
becomes protracted, we may cave in and move on, but I think its worth
investigating in case a quick fix might present itself.

> 
> | OK, my suggestion would be to break at this error trap, find the
> | address of the bad string (i.e. ...->st.st_self), 'watch *(char
> | *)<address>)' and rerun.  You'd need to put the maxima lisp compile
> | commands in a separate file and load it.
> |
> | > I'll specify gcc 3.3.1 for the release.
> |
> | This one is important, IMHO.  Could someone please give me the details
> | of the failure with 3.3.3?  All I know now is that 'it doesn't work'.
> | Would really appreciate a gdb session showing the failure.  Vadim, if
> | you could help here too, it would be most appreciated.
> 
> I'll continue to think on this stuff.
> 

Thanks!

Might David Billinghurst also lend a hand?

> 
> Cheers
> 
> MIke Thomas.
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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