This sounds like what I mentioned in my other email; probably you are
using a 32-bit C system and it barfs on the size of that pointer.

2009/12/7 Arthur A. Gleckler <[email protected]>:
>> Just to clarify: do you mean that you had the 20090107 snapshot with
>> the C back end installed, and you fetched a clean Git repository, in
>> which you ran Setup.sh and etc/make-native.sh?  And did it fail at the
>> same time as for Derrell Piper as shown in his transcript?
>
> Here are the steps I followed:
>
>  1) I downloaded the 20090107 C back end ".tgz" file and installed
>  it.
>
>  2) I fetched a clean Git repository.
>
>  3) I ran <sh etc/make-native.sh>.  (I didn't run "Setup.sh" since
>  "make-native.sh" does that.)
>
> It failed at exactly the same place as it did for Derrell:
>
>  ;  Compiling file: "crypto.bin" => "crypto.moc"...
>  ;non-pointer datum out of range 288230376151711743
>
>> I'll try again to reproduce this tomorrow.  However, I don't have
>> access to any x86-64 machine running Snow Leopard; I can test it only
>> under GNU/Linux.
>
> I was able to build a native x86-64 version on Snow Leopard in
> mid-November (but on a different machine), so I doubt that it's Snow
> Leopard that makes the difference.  I wonder whether any of the recent
> arithmetic fixes introduced a bug.
>
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