On Sunday 19 October 2008 14:02:58 Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: > when running code as this: > .sub main :immediate > load_bytecode "foo.pir" > .end > > (assuming you have a file 'foo.pir'), IMCC can't handle this. > > This is because in pbc.c, a global structure called 'globals' is used to > allow the different functions to share access to some data (in particular, > the code segment stuff). > > As documented by a warning in imcc's sources, a load_bytecode will trigger > a (nested) compilation phase, which will overwrite this data. > > Parrot won't output anything (windows) , possibly segfaulting. > > The fix would be to store this 'globals' structure in the imcc_info > structure (I think).
I've done that in r32461 and r32462, but it doesn't fix the problem completely. We need to dig further into it. -- c
