On 11/ 5/10 11:16 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:48 AM, Dr. David Kirkby > <david.kir...@onetel.net>wrote: > >> Several months ago I discovered that Maxima would not build in Sage on >> 64-bit >> OpenSolaris. ECL built, but Maxima would not. [...] >> At the time, I did not have a clue whether this was a Maxima, ECL or Sage >> issue, >> but now I believe it is an ECL issue, as the link-editor thinks the shared >> object contains text relocations.[...] > > > Seems that the problem was caused by ECL's threaded interpreter > optimization, which uses a computed goto. This computed goto is just working > fine in all other versions of GCC in all other platforms. The obvious > solution was to deactivate that optimization (a pity, because it is a > powerful one) for Sun's platform. I have just finished a 64-bit build of ECL > on Solaris using GCC without problems. Sorry for the delay. > > Juanjo >
BTW, could you make the activation/deactivation an option? Since it causes no problems on 32-bit builds to my knowledge, it would be nice to be able to enable the optimization. Otherwise it will cause a performance regression on 32-bit builds. Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Ecls-list mailing list Ecls-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ecls-list
