Bignum support still broken on powerpc (ping: Jerry James)

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. I tried to build today with -enable-bignum=gmp. I got the same breakage. My system is Mac OS X 10.4.6 (both a G4 and a G5). I compile with gcc4.01. The error is *** Error in XEmacs initialization (wrong-type-argument sequencep 34) *** Backtrace really-early-error-handler((wrong-type-argument sequencep 34)) define-key(#<keymap global-map size 6 0x250f> 34 self-insert-command) # bind (n) Right after the console says (I mean the lines below fall immediately before the block above) Loading /Users/royar/src/xemacs/lisp/simple.elc... Loading /Users/royar/src/xemacs/lisp/newcomment.elc... Loading /Users/royar/src/xemacs/lisp/keydefs.elc... There must be some character alignment issue because the error string switches the console xterm to what looks to be "line-drawing mode." And the console has to be reset. The error is early in linking. The linking commands run right before the excerpt above are gcc -Wall -Wno-switch -Wundef -Wsign-compare -Wno-char-subscripts -Wpacked -Wpointer-arith -Wunused-parameter -g -Os -pipe -mcpu=970 -mtune=970 -mpim-altivec -Os -pipe -mcpu=970 -mtune=970 -mpim-altivec -mpowerpc-gpopt -L/opt/local/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -o temacs abbrev.o alloc.o alloca.o balloon_help.o balloon-x.o blocktype.o buffer.o bytecode.o callint.o casefiddle.o casetab.o chartab.o filelock.o cmdloop.o cmds.o console.o console-stream.o data.o database.o device.o dired.o doc.o doprnt.o dynarr.o editfns.o elhash.o emacs.o emodules.o eval.o events.o event-stream.o event-unixoid.o dumper.o inline.o esd.o miscplay.o terminfo.o extents.o faces.o file-coding.o fileio.o filemode.o floatfns.o fns.o font-lock.o frame.o gc.o general.o dgif_lib.o gif_io.o glyphs.o glyphs-eimage.o glyphs-shared.o glyphs-widget.o gui.o menubar.o scrollbar.o dialog.o toolbar.o gutter.o hash.o imgproc.o indent.o insdel.o intl.o keymap.o line-number.o lread.o lstream.o macros.o marker.o md5.o minibuf.o mule-ccl.o mule-charset.o mule-coding.o number-gmp.o number.o objects.o opaque.o print.o process.o process-unix.o profile.o rangetab.o realpath.o redisplay.o redisplay-output.o regex.o search.o select.o sysdll.o signal.o sound.o specifier.o strftime.o symbols.o syntax.o sysdep.o text.o console-tty.o device-tty.o event-tty.o frame-tty.o objects-tty.o redisplay-tty.o cm.o undo.o unicode.o console-x.o device-x.o event-Xt.o frame-x.o glyphs-x.o objects-x.o redisplay-x.o select-x.o xgccache.o intl-x.o gui-x.o menubar-x.o scrollbar-x.o dialog-x.o toolbar-x.o toolbar-common.o widget.o window.o lastfile.o EmacsFrame.o EmacsShell.o TopLevelEmacsShell.o TransientEmacsShell.o EmacsManager.o ExternalShell.o extw-Xt-nonshared.o extw-Xlib-nonshared.o dump-id.o dump-data.o ../lwlib/liblw.a -lXaw3d -ltiff -lpng -ljpeg -lz -lXpm -lXmu -lXt -lXext -lX11 -lSM -lICE -lgmp -ldb -lgdbm -lncurses -L/opt/local/lib -lesd -laudiofile -lm -lintl ./temacs -nd -no-packages -batch -l /Users/royar/src/xemacs/src/../lisp/update-elc.el Loading /Users/royar/src/xemacs/src/../lisp/update-elc.el... Loading find-paths.el... Loading packages.el... Loading setup-paths.el... Loading /Users/royar/src/xemacs/lisp/dumped-lisp.el... Wrote /Users/royar/src/xemacs/src/REBUILD_AUTOLOADS if true ; then \ ./temacs -nd -no-packages -batch -l /Users/royar/src/xemacs/src/../lisp/make-docfile.el -- \ -o ../lib-src/DOC -d /Users/royar/src/xemacs/src -i ../lib-src/../site-packages \ abbrev.c alloc.c alloca.c balloon_help.c balloon-x.c blocktype.c buffer.c bytecode.c callint.c casefiddle.c casetab.c chartab.c filelock.c cmdloop.c cmds.c console.c console-stream.c data.c database.c device.c dired.c doc.c doprnt.c dynarr.c editfns.c elhash.c emacs.c emodules.c eval.c events.c event-stream.c event-unixoid.c dumper.c inline.c esd.c miscplay.c terminfo.c extents.c faces.c file-coding.c fileio.c filemode.c floatfns.c fns.c font-lock.c frame.c gc.c general.c dgif_lib.c gif_io.c glyphs.c glyphs-eimage.c glyphs-shared.c glyphs-widget.c gui.c menubar.c scrollbar.c dialog.c toolbar.c gutter.c hash.c imgproc.c indent.c insdel.c intl.c keymap.c line-number.c lread.c lstream.c macros.c marker.c md5.c minibuf.c mule-ccl.c mule-charset.c mule-coding.c number-gmp.c number.c objects.c opaque.c print.c process.c process-unix.c profile.c rangetab.c realpath.c redisplay.c redisplay-output.c regex.c search.c select.c sysdll.c signal.c sound.c specifier.c strftime.c symbols.c syntax.c sysdep.c text.c console-tty.c device-tty.c event-tty.c frame-tty.c objects-tty.c redisplay-tty.c cm.c undo.c unicode.c console-x.c device-x.c event-Xt.c frame-x.c glyphs-x.c objects-x.c redisplay-x.c select-x.c xgccache.c intl-x.c gui-x.c menubar-x.c scrollbar-x.c dialog-x.c toolbar-x.c toolbar-common.c widget.c window.c \ ; fi Loading /Users/royar/src/xemacs/src/../lisp/make-docfile.el... Loading find-paths.el... Loading packages.el... Loading setup-paths.el... Loading raw-process.el... Requiring custom... Requiring widget... Loading process... Loading /Users/royar/src/xemacs/lisp/dumped-lisp.el... Spawning make-docfile ... Spawning make-docfile ...done ./temacs -nd -no-packages -batch -l /Users/royar/src/xemacs/src/../lisp/loadup.el dump Loading /Users/royar/src/xemacs/src/../lisp/loadup.el... Using load-path (/Users/royar/src/xemacs/lisp/) Using module-load-path (/Users/royar/src/xemacs/modules) In compiling I see a few of these gmp-related warnings: data.c: In function 'Flsh': data.c:2412: warning: control may reach end of non-void function '__gmpz_get_ui' being inlined floatfns.c: In function 'Fexpt': floatfns.c:505: warning: control may reach end of non-void function '__gmpz_get_ui' being inlined number.c: In function 'bignum_hash': number.c:70: warning: control may reach end of non-void function '__gmpz_get_ui' being inlined I have tried with no optimization, no union type, and many simple configurations. The outcome is always the same. -- Dr. Robert Delius Royar Associate Professor of English Morehead State University Morehead, Kentucky