Greetings! Well, I found the issue. Pleased to announce that we now have gcl and gcl/maxima on sparc with no errors. Debian packages hopefully to follow soon.
Take care, Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 04:05:15PM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote: > > Greetings! OK, in looking at some old posts on debian-sparc, I've > > found the very helpful tip: > > > > >Compiling the failing application with the gcc-flag "-Wcast-align" may > > >detect some of these problems. (The compiler itself should not misalign > > >things, so casting is usually a major suspect.) > > > > >If the application casts byte arrays into struct types (for example to > > >decode packet contents for some network protocol), it might also help to > > >declare the struct types as packed, using "__attribute__((__packed__))". > > >Apart from avoiding padding within the struct, this will alert the > > >compiler that the struct members may be misaligned. Code accessing the > > >struct members will then be compiled to handle that situation. > > > > -Wcast-aligned gives many warnings for gcl. Is there a way I can > > globally align everything on 8 byte boundaries without having to > > modify each offending variable declaration with __attribute__ > > ((aligned))? > > > > Take care, > > Use the "__attribute__((__packed__))" for structures that relate to the > part of the code you are having problems with. See what happens. > > -- > Debian - http://www.debian.org/ > Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ > Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ > Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Gcl-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel > > -- Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
