Re: Bignum support still broken on powerpc (ping: Jerry James)
Wed, 5 Apr 2006 (17:00 -0600 UTC) Jerry James wrote:
Hi Robert,
robert delius royar <xemacs(a)frinabulax.org> wrote:
> Wed, 5 Apr 2006 (22:38 +0200 UTC) Adrian Aichner wrote:
>
>> robert delius royar <xemacs(a)frinabulax.org> writes:
>>
>>> Now that Jerry James is back, I wanted to report again that big number
>>> support appears to break something about the byte compiler when
>>> linking (on powerpc Mac) during the first pass at creating an XEmacs
>>> executable.
>>>
>>> The breakage first began some months ago, and I reported it then.
>>
>> Hi Robert, is this the one?
>>
>> http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200506/msg00220.html
Ah, June. That was the month I was moving into a new house and getting
rear-ended. What fun!
What version of the gmp library are you using?
For what it's worth, I don't get the compiler warnings you listed on
i386 Fedora Core 4, i386 Fedora Core 5, or x86_64 Fedora Core 5. FC4
and FC5 both shipped with gmp 4.1.4.
Regards,
The compile I posted yesterday is 4.1.4. The one from June 2005 was
earlier, but I do not recall how earlier. I know I had to update when I
updated gnumeric.
Since no one else has reported this, I suspect it is powerPC specific.
It occurs on both my G4 and G5 machines. I do not know if it is also OS
X specific or related to gcc4.0x. However, gcc4 does issue more
warnings than did gcc3.3 or gcc3.4 on my system, and it will not build
some large well-known projects that use old C++ code. But that is not
related to the gmp failures.
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Dr. Robert Delius Royar Associate Professor of English
Morehead State University Morehead, Kentucky