> On Feb 17, 2016, at 2:53 PM, Timothe Litt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 17-Feb-16 14:48, Michael Huff wrote:
>> I grabbed simh_master.zip from github yesterday and compiled it on OSX
>> and in a virtualbox instance of Linux Mint 17. OSX is the native OS,
>> Linux is in a VM.
>>
>> I have a 43BSD machine accessible to both on a shared drive. It will
>> boot normally when I run vax780 inside of the Linux VM, but when I
>> run the vax780 binary I compiled in OSX it crashes.
>>
> If I had to guess, it would be that the shared drive is not presenting
> the same data to both environments.
>
> Perhaps it's treating the binary file as text and adding <CR><LF>s -- or
> some such.
>
> I'd checksum the file from both sides before assuming it's a SimH issue.
That is a good test, certainly. But OSX is Unix, so it shouldn't suffer from
the sort of Windows-style misbehavior you mentioned.
I wonder if it might be a compiler bug. It would be instructive to download
gcc and use that to build the OSX based SIMH, to see if it behaves differently.
paul
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