Greetings, and thanks so much as always for your feedback! Curious about clang -- would love to see the whole build log. I just did a successful build on debian unstable with clang 1:14.0-55.3.
Take care, Raymond Toy <toy.raym...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 12:37 PM Raymond Toy <toy.raym...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 9:23 AM Camm Maguire <c...@maguirefamily.org> wrote: > > Greetings, and thanks so much for your feedback! > > My strong guess is that you are using gcc-12. There is a known bug > therein preventing gcl from using it until fixed. I anticipate this > won't take too long, so have not put any configure checks etc. in the > way. > > Good guess! gcc 12.2.1 on two of my linux boxes. Do you think building > with clang (14.0.5 or 15.0.4) would work better? > > To answer my own question, no clang does not work. I get many warnings like: > > ./../h/../h/att_ext.h:623:8: warning: a function declaration without a > prototype is deprecated in all versions of C and is not supported in C2x > [-Wdeprecated-non-prototype] > object fLrow_major_aref(); > ^ > ./../h/../h/new_decl.h:268:14: note: conflicting prototype is here > EXTER object fLrow_major_aref (object x,fixnum i); > > Then when gcl is loading up all the parts, I get: > > COMPILER> > Error: PROGRAM-ERROR "HEAP-REPORT [or a callee] requires less than three > arguments." > Signalled by HEAP-REPORT. > > PROGRAM-ERROR "HEAP-REPORT [or a callee] requires less than three arguments." > > Broken at SYSTEM::DO-BREAK-LEVEL. Type :H for Help. > 1 Return to top level. > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1023756 > > Please let me know if problems persist with gcc <= 11. You should be > able to do CC=gcc-11 ./configure .... when building gcl and that will > take care of it. > > Take care, > > Raymond Toy <toy.raym...@gmail.com> writes: > > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 10:58 AM Camm Maguire > <c...@transcendence.maguirefamily.org> wrote: > > > > Greetings! The GCL team is happy to announce the release of version > > 2.6.13, the latest achievement in the 'stable' (as opposed to > > 'development') series. Please see http://www.gnu.org/software/gcl for > > downloading information. > > > > This release consolidates several years of work on GCL internals, > > performance and ansi compliance. > > > > I got the release from git and built it without problems. Built maxima > too, but I get memory corruption errors and a fatal segfault runnint the > testsuite. I'm using the current maxima HEAD, not your cleanup banch. (Which > looks really nice, BTW.) > > > > Garbage collection has been overhauled and significantly accelerated. > > Contiguous block handling is now as fast as or perhaps faster than > > relblock handling, leading to the now implemented promotion of relblock > > data to contiguous after a surviving a number of gc calls. Relblock is > > only written once during gc. Heap allocation is fully dynamic at > > runtime and controllable with environment variables without > > recompilation. While SGC is supported, it is found in practice to be > > less useful with modern large memory cores and is off by default. </p> > > > > GCC on several platforms defaults to code which must lie within a common > > 2Gb space, now an issue with heaps routinely larger than this. Error > > protection for code address overflow is in place on most machines. The > > variable si::*code-block-reserve* can be set to a static array of > > element type 'character to preallocate a code block early within an > > acceptable range. On amd64, compile-file takes a :large-memory-model-p > > keyword (with compiler::*default-large-memory-model-p*) to compile > > somewhat slower code which can be loaded at an arbitrary address. > > > > The COMMON-LISP package is fixed to the ansi standard. A CLTL1-COMPAT > > package is defined to support earlier applications, and is used in > > non-ansi builds. > > > > GCL can optionally manage a single heap load across multiple processes > > via the GCL_MULTIPROCESS_MEMORY_POOL environment variable. GCL can > > compile gprof profiling code in non-profiling images using the :prof-p > > keyword to compile, causing '(si::gprof-start)(...)(si::gprof-quit)' to > > only report calls to such code. GCL supports riscv4, and 64bit cygwin > > on Windows in addition to the previous 21 architectures. GCL has > > extensive support for hardware floating point exception handling via the > > #'si::break-on-floating-point-exceptions function, taking the floating > > point errors as keyword arguments. > > > > Several ANSI compliance errors have been fixed, most particularly in > > pathnames and restarts. Hashtables have been accelerated, supporting > > caching, static allocation, and 'equalp tests. > > > > Circle detection and handling has been greatly accelerated, using the gc > > marking algorithm for a copy-less implementation. > > > > The compiler no longer writes data files reordering > > "package-operations", changing the data file format to one loadable on > > object file initialization. > > > > Floating point reading and writing has been made more precise. Inf/nan > > handling matches IEEE specifications. > > > > Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/gcl//gcl-2.6.13.tar.gz > > https://www.gnu.org/software/gcl//gcl-2.6.13.tar.gz.sig > > > > Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth: > > https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html > > > > Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums: > > > > 15b99ce0a0274ea1487866593d1262b0ce0051fa gcl-2.6.13.tar.gz > > 8OnPPf67vS3iJo9GC49W/ItKGRRBs2IAF+RLJcmssY4 gcl-2.6.13.tar.gz > > > > The SHA256 checksum is base64 encoded, instead of the > > hexadecimal encoding that most checksum tools default to. > > > > Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the > > .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file > > and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: > > > > gpg --verify gcl-2.6.13.tar.gz.sig > > > > The signature should match the fingerprint of the following key: > > > > pub dsa1024 2002-08-23 [SCA] > > F1B0 68F9 933A AC36 2A30 A795 7331 B5C0 57F0 45DC > > uid [ unknown] Camm Maguire <c...@debian.org> > > uid [ unknown] Camm Maguire <c...@enhanced.com> > > > > If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, > > or that public key has expired, try the following commands to retrieve > > or refresh it, and then rerun the 'gpg --verify' command. > > > > gpg --recv-keys F1B068F9933AAC362A30A7957331B5C057F045DC > > > > As a last resort to find the key, you can try the official GNU > > keyring: > > > > wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-keyring.gpg > > gpg --keyring gnu-keyring.gpg --verify gcl-2.6.13.tar.gz.sig > > -- > > Camm Maguire c...@maguirefamily.org > > ========================================================================== > > "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah > > -- > Camm Maguire c...@maguirefamily.org > ========================================================================== > "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah > > -- > Ray -- Camm Maguire c...@maguirefamily.org ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah
