Re: [Maxima] Fw: [Gcl-devel] Re: gcl on ms windows

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

Tim Pierce <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 11:13:11AM -0500, Camm Maguire wrote:
> > "Mike Thomas" <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > > I have found at least part of the trouble with the Mingw32 port of GCL 
> > > > by
> > > > comparing the compilation methods for GCL and Maxima.
> > > >
> > > > The problem revolved around "cmpnew/cmpmain.c".
> > > >
> > > > Apparently twelve nulls had to be inserted between the compiler 
> > > > generated
> > > > object code.  I intend to test further to double check this as I am not
> > > > absolutely certain whether this is necessary.  A further problem was 
> > > > that
> > 
> > This is rather odd.  Perhaps it will become clearer when I can see the
> > changes you'd like to check in?
> 
> I haven't been actively working on GCL for a few months, so please pardon
> me if this is already well known, but Bill Schelter's GCL 2.4.0 release
> did indeed require inserting twelve NUL characters into the object files,
> at least on some platforms.  I'm not enough of a systems hacker to know
> why this was necessary, or under what circumstances.
> 
> Just saying that Mike Thomas is not crazy for concluding that this
> was necessary. :-)
> 

Thanks for the tip!  How/where di you learn this, and which platforms
were affected?  Any reasoning?  Perhaps a 16 byte alignment issue?

Take care,

> -- 
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> So is the spinach pouring from the spinach truck!
> 
> 

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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