[plt-scheme] Can't compile 372 on PPC64

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> At Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:29:20 +0000, "Paulo J. Matos" wrote:
>  > I've just tried to build PLT Scheme 372 on my PS3, PPC64 and got the
>  > following error:
>  >
>  > cd gc2; make gen-deps
>  > make[4]: Entering directory `/home/pmatos/plt-372/src/mred/gc2'
>  > ../../mzscheme/mzscheme3m -qr "./gen-deps.ss"
>  > Seg fault (internal error) at 0x40000030000
>  > make[4]: *** [gen-deps] Aborted
>  >
>  > I was expecting it to work. Is there any architecture dependent code
>  > that doesnt support ppc64?
>
>  My guess is that something is wrong with the 3m write-barrier signal
>  handler, but that's just a guess.
>
>  Can you get a stack trace? I expect that just starting mzscheme3m will
>  crash.
>
>  By poking at plt/src/mzscheme/gc2/newgc.c, can you confirm that
>  SIXTY_FOUR_BIT_INTEGERS is correctly #defined (should be automatic), so
>  that the GC knows that it's working in 64-bit mode?
>

I'll reply to you later in the afternoon given that, unfortunately, we
still don't have PS3 on the research lab. :)

>  Thanks,
>  Matthew
>
>
>
>



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