Hello, Manuel,
Please disregard my earlier report. I had improperly bootstrapped. Once I did
so correctly, the problem disappeared.
Thanks,
Joseph Donaldson
On Sunday, September 15, 2024 at 11:01:47 AM PDT, Joseph Donaldson
<donaldso...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hello, Manuel,
With recent bignumber changes, I am seeing BXZERO undefined errors when
compiling bdb when configured to build the full bee. The error is:
Linking...
/usr/bin/ld:
/home/jwd/bigloo_srcs/bigloo-1/lib/bigloo/4.6a/libbigloo_s-4.6a.so: undefined
reference to `BXZERO'
>From what I have seen, this is due to differences in the generic and gmp
>implementations of bignumbers. The generic implementation defines and exports
>the functions BXZERO, BXPOSITIVE, and BXNEGATIVE. The gmp implementation does
>not. However, when compiling the runtime library with BGL_BOOT=1, it appears
>we are mixing the 2 implementations, resulting in unsafe/rsa.scm being
>miscompiled. It rends up eferencing the function BXZERO (due to extern
>definitions in bigloo_bignumber.h) which is not defined for the GMP bignumber
>implementation. I am not sure why this does not show up elsewhere but it does
>surface when compiling bdb. I have not been able to find any easy workarounds.
>My guess is that the 2 implementations need to be reworked a bit to have
>equivalent interfaces, i.e., both export BXZERO, BXPOSITIVE, and BXNEGATIVE or
>not, but maybe, there is a better way that I have not thought of.
Thanks, Joseph Donaldson
