* Andrew Dougherty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040120 02:19]: > > Wordsize errors are one common type of error that show up on PPC > (and SPARC) more readily than on x86, due to byte-order issues. > > When reporting problems, it's often a good idea to include the ./myconfig > file in the parrot build directory -- it includes information about the > variable types and sizes used in building parrot. These sizes may depend > on your gcc version, how it was configured, and how it was called.
Ok. I should have put this into my reply to Harry Jackson, but here 'tis anyway. cat myconfig: Summary of my parrot 0.0.13 configuration: configdate='Tue Jan 20 17:51:28 2004' Platform: osname=linux, archname=powerpc-linux jitcapable=1, jitarchname=ppc-linux, jitosname=LINUX, jitcpuarch=ppc execcapable=1 perl=/usr/bin/perl Compiler: cc='gcc', ccflags='-DPERL5 -DDEBUGGING -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', Linker and Libraries: ld='gcc', ldflags=' -L/usr/local/lib', cc_ldflags='', libs='-lpthread -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil' Dynamic Linking: so='.so', ld_shared='-shared -L/usr/local/lib', ld_shared_flags='' Types: iv=long, intvalsize=4, intsize=4, opcode_t=long, opcode_t_size=4, ptrsize=4, ptr_alignment=4 byteorder=4321, nv=double, numvalsize=8, doublesize=8 Later Paul