NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/comp/windows/x/apps/921

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From: [e-mail] (Alfred van der Hoeven)
Subject: Re: Trying to compile xfig2.1.4
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Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 09:09:48 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Anthony Shipman) writes:
|> [e-mail] (Brian V. Smith) writes:
|>
|> >In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Kompilerpraktikum Gruppe18) writes:
|> >|> Today I tried to compile xfig 2.1.4 on our HP9000/720. It worked all fine
|> >|> until u_undo.c. After this part part I got a Bus Error and signal 10.
|> >|>
|> >|> Is there somebody who could help out ??
|>
|>
|> >Please send me a stack trace and I'll see what I can find.  First, compile
|> >u_undo.c with the -g option so the full symbol information is available
|> >for the stack trace.
|>
|>
|> Doesn't he mean the compiler crashed, not the program?  If so, try lower
|> levels of optimisation.
|> --
|> Anthony Shipman                 "You've got to be taught before it's too late,
|> CP Software Export Pty Ltd,      Before you are six or seven or eight,
|> 19 Cato St., East Hawthorn,      To hate all the people your relatives hate,
|> Melbourne, Australia, 3121       You've got to be carefully taught."  R&H

The C compiler on the HP9000/700s stumbles over some of the initializations
that take place in u-undo.c (and object.c), which are probably incorrect.
Applying the following patch will probably solve your problem.

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*** u_undo.c    Mon Apr 20 20:57:01 1992
--- u_undo.c    Tue Jul 28 17:39:50 1992
***************
*** 38,45 ****
   * all the "next" fields of objects pointed to by object_tails to NULL.
   */

! F_compound    saved_objects = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL};
! F_compound    object_tails = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL};

  /*************** LOCAL *****************/

--- 38,45 ----
   * all the "next" fields of objects pointed to by object_tails to NULL.
   */

! F_compound    saved_objects = {0, { 0, 0 }, { 0, 0 }, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL};
! F_compound    object_tails = {0, { 0, 0 }, { 0, 0 }, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL};

  /*************** LOCAL *****************/

*** object.c    Mon Apr 20 20:56:14 1992
--- object.c    Thu Sep  3 11:01:08 1992
***************
*** 21,27 ****

  /************************  Objects  **********************/

! F_compound    objects = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL};

  /************  global object pointers ************/

--- 21,27 ----

  /************************  Objects  **********************/

! F_compound    objects = {0, { 0, 0 }, { 0, 0 }, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL};

  /************  global object pointers ************/

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