Re: parrot compilation failure in Tru64

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 04:44:47PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 06:44:38PM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > The question is why was it wrong after a fresh checkout? (also in Linux)
> 
> No idea. Is make_op_header.pl run? Does op.h contain the #define's?
> 
> > Another observation is that after 'rm op.h; make op.h' the thing
> > builds but with some gnashing of the teeth:
> 
> And segfaults here:
> 
> (gdb) run test.pbc
> Starting program: /var/tmp/parrot/test_prog test.pbc
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x120007388 in read_constants_table (program_code=0x11ffffb48) at bytecode.c:66
> 66          IV len = GRAB_IV(program_code);
> (gdb) quit
> 
> Don't know why. :(

I think it's very simply that one cannot deref a void** as a long*,
because of memory alignment restrictions (MEM_ALIGNBYTES is 8 in alpha).

> Simon

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