New VMMaker/svn release
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab at gmx.de
Thu Dec 29 21:00:05 UTC 2005
tim Rowledge wrote:
>> Unfortunately I have not been able to build a working 64 VM yet.
>> I'm using VMMaker-tpr.39 (loaded from Squeak Map), SVN 1282, plus my
>> local patches (attached for reference). The OS is 32 bit Intel Linux.
>>
>> I was previously able to build a 64 bit VM with VMMaker-tpr.37 and
>> SVN 1259, with the same local patches.
>
> Hmm, sadly not something I can be of much help with; no linux machine etc.
> All I can say is that *very* little changed between .37 and .39 that I
> could imagine having any such effect. Um, well diff is your reasonably
> polite acquaintance I think.
It is possible that this might be caused by changing the compiler. Ian
and I had a lot of fun figuring out which versions of gcc are broken in
subtle enough ways so that certain "optimizations" completely break the
64bit VM. I'd try using a different version of gcc (preferredly the one
that worked before) and see if that helps.
Cheers,
- Andreas
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