Hi all.

In Cog/src/vm/cogit.c in moving the #include "dispdbg.h" above the #include "cointerp.h" and #include "cogit.h" like so:

#include <stddef.h>
#include "sq.h"
#include "sqCogStackAlignment.h"
#include "cogmethod.h"
#include "dispdbg.h"
#if COGMTVM
#include "cointerpmt.h"
#else
#include "cointerp.h"
#endif
#include "cogit.h"
 

appears to solve the problem. 

My initial thinking is a so.

dispdg.h brings in sqAssert.h which defines PRODUCTION as 1 or 0 depending on CFLAGS passed in.

With dispbdg.h included after cogit.h, PRODUCTION  was not defined and the tests in cogit.h

#if !PRODUCTION && defined(__GNUC__) && !defined(NoDbgRegParms)
# define NoDbgRegParms __attribute__ ((regparm (0)))
#endif

#if !defined(NoDbgRegParms)
# define NoDbgRegParms /*empty*/
#endif
 

My conjecture is as follows (I am NOT fluent in the semantics of cpp, just a script kiddy who bit the bullet and rtfm this week (: ).

In the ....../build/vm/Makefile, $(interp)?.o is generated prior to cogit.o.

gcc3x-cointerp.c includes sqAssert.h via dispdg.h prior to the cogit.h and cointerp.h included.

This PRODUCTION is set 0 or 1 and NoDbgRegParms is defined one way or the other.

cpp then pre-processes cogit.h. 

At this point, I lose track of the semantics, but I deduce that NoDbgRegParms IS defined from the gcc3x-cointerp.c parse so NoDbgRegParms is left as is in the cogit.c file.

This was the bug I was tracking down.

I leave it to the more experienced to judge the correctness of the forensics.

cheers.

tty.