On 2008-06-27 16:35-0700 Jerry wrote: > > On Jun 27, 2008, at 1:35 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > >> The 2.6.0 issues: >> >> I have just now (revision 8497) put in a bug fix recommended by >> Brad King >> (both for branches/test_cmake/test_ada and trunk) which solves all >> 2.6.0 >> issues for a static build of the Ada libraries. However, there are >> remaining 2.6.0 rpath issues for the build tree that do not occur >> for 2.4.8. >> Those issues currently screw up the 2.6.0 ctest of the Ada examples >> (unless >> LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to work around them), but do not affect the >> install-tree tests of Ada. >> >> General Ada issues occurring for both 2.4.8 and 2.6.0: >> >> (1) Example 19 generates the following run-time error message: >> >> raised STORAGE_ERROR : stack overflow (or erroneous memory access) >> >> This is for both the thick and thin 19th examples built on Linux >> with gnatmake >> (installed with the Debian testing 4.1.2-8 version of gnat-4.1): >> >> Jerry, I hope you also see that STORAGE_ERROR on Mac OS X so >> that you can debug it locally rather than remotely through me. > > Unfortunately, both of these examples 19 run fine for me--no errors > or exceptions are reported and the PS files are generated OK. I'm > running GNAT 4.3. > > Googling the entire error line above gives 13 results, some from > bugzilla for Ada. I don't know how to make sense of of the > discussions but I wonder if it was a problem for GNAT 4.1 on x86. > > I'm open to suggestions on what I can try at this end.
I just now looked at google as well, and the above error message does appear to be part of a bug report for gcc/gnat 4.1. So perhaps it has been fixed in 4.3 which is why you don't see it, and there is nothing much more that needs to be done. N.B. I have therefore reenabled example 19 (revision 8501) to see how well it does on systems with gnat-4.3 installed. Andrew, I would appreciate it if you ctested the Ada examples on your Debian unstable system. The gnat promotion from Debian unstable to testing is in a nasty tangle right now (the gnat package is being deliberately held back because of a large number of package update issues) so I am not in a good position to try 4.3 myself on my Debian testing system. Orion, how does the Ada component of ctest work on Fedora (which presumably also has gnat-4.3 or later)? If all Ada examples (including example 19) run without errors for all systems with gnat-4.3, then I think we should just note in our release notes that gnat-4.3 provides more reliable example results than 4.1 and let it go at that. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel