Hi Bruce,

excellent thanks alot.

Actually fyi i built ecl out of the box on an Ultra 10 sparc here at work!

But the SS5 is obviously a different animal.

I will try your suggestion.

chs,
Paul.





Bruce O'Neel wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sorry, I deleted the orig email so I can't reply.
>
> Making the change for udiv_fp.asm -> udiv_nfp.asm gets me
> to ecl_min starting up and it's still running and will so for several
> hours.  My recollection is that without the udiv_fp.asm change
> it will crash building two files.
>
> The first was cmp/cmpffi.lsp and the second was lsp/mislib.lsp.
>
> The problem is that divisions of bignums cause a bus error with
> udiv_fp.asm.  They don't, happily, happen with udiv_nfp.asm.
>
> If you don't want to change udiv_fp.asm you can build ecl
> on some other (non sparc 32 system) and then copy cmpffi.* and mislib.*
> from that system to your sparc system and build them manually.  Then
> restarting make will continue beyond those files.  The resulting ecl
> though will someimes bus error when you use bignums.
>
> All of the above is according to my faulty memory and I'll be able
> to tell you in a few hours how faulty the memory in fact was.
>
> cheers
>
> bruce
>
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