Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Several fixes to make CHICKEN work on Solaris again

[Kon Lovett]

Thank you.

Passed MacOS 10.9.1 x86-64 clang 5.0

On Feb 20, 2014, at 5:18 PM, Mario Domenech Goulart <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 23:03:37 +0100 Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> In preparation of the release, I've begun testing on some operating
>> systems, starting with GCC on OpenIndiane (a continuation of
>> OpenSolaris).  Turns out a lot of things were broken, so here are
>> 6 patches to fix them.
>> 
>> The patches should speak for themselves, I think.  The unsetenv one is
>> the most involved and might break things on other platforms (but I
>> intend to test most of them anyway, so that shouldn't be an issue).
>> We should try to move more towards feature-based #ifdef checking rather
>> than attempting to roll lots of things into one definition like
>> C_GNU_ENV, the name of which makes very little sense when it's defined
>> for BSD and Haiku as well as Linux.  And it doesn't have any semantic
>> meaning; it was used to detect a timeval slot and the presence of
>> unsetenv().
> 
> Thanks, Peter.  I've pushed them all after testing them on the following
> platforms:
> 
> OS                       HW Arch     C compiler
> ------------------------+-----------+----------
> Linux                    x86-64         GCC
> Linux                    x86-64        clang
> FreeBSD 10               x86-64        clang
> Windows XP (mingw)        x86           GCC
> Windows XP (cygwin)       x86           GCC
> Windows XP (mingw-msys)   x86           GCC
> Haiku                     x86           GCC
> 
> 
> I faced only a small issue: "make check" hangs on Haiku:
> 
> ======================================== runtime tests ...
> many arguments supported.
> testing 'apply' with 0..2048 (maximum apply argument count)...
> If this segfaults on x86-64, try updating GCC (4.5 has a code-generation bug):
> invoking directly with 0..50...
> invoking directly with 1998..2048 (maximum interpreted direct argument 
> count)...
> testing 'apply' can detect calls of too many arguments...
> testing direct invocation can detect calls of too many arguments...
> ../chicken 'apply-test.scm' -output-file 'a.c' -verbose -include-path ..
> 'gcc' 'a.c' -o 'a.o' -c -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -DHAVE_CHICKEN_CONFIG_H 
> -DC_ENABLE_PTABLES -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -I.. 
> -I"/Blank_BFS/local/chicken-master/include/chicken"
> 
> It seems that gcc gets in an endless (?) loop or something that takes a
> very long time hogging the CPU.  If I comment lines 145 and 146 in
> runtests.sh, "make check" finishes without problems.
> 
> Despite that issue, which I believe to be GCC's and not related to your
> patches, I could install pastiche and run awful on Haiku.
> 
> GCC on Haiku is 4.6.3.
> 
> Best wishes.
> Mario
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