gcl-devel
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: [Gcl-devel] New GMP configuration avoidance and general communicatio


From: Camm Maguire
Subject: Re: [Gcl-devel] New GMP configuration avoidance and general communication notes
Date: 31 Aug 2004 16:39:48 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2

Greetings!

"Mike Thomas" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Camm.
> 
> I had the luxury of two whole hours of pseudo-(I played Mister Potato Head
> with Rosie while waiting for builds)-uninterrupted GCL programming on
> Sunday, and just wanted to say thanks for your rework of the GMP
> configuration - it cuts configuration down from 4 to 1 minute on my 800 MHz
> PIII and enabled me to cover much more ground than usual.
> 
> I'm pursuing three different avenues with GCL at present:
> 
> 1. Cleaning up the Windows linking - now moved into separate sfaslpecoff.c
> and rel_pecoff.c files.  I'm hoping in the short term to make the code more
> readable, to allow more flexibility with respect to the location of the text
> section raw data and in the longer term, to use the appropriate structures
> and macros provided in the Windows system headers for PECOFF objects rather
> than the non-standard hand coded equivalents provided in the rats nest of
> GCL sfasl code and related headers.  Testing these changes with complete
> rebuilds of GCL and Maxima really benefitied from the time savings I
> mentioned above.
> 

Great!  A marvelous idea IMHO.


> 2. Automating the setting of C stack size and related items.  This has been
> working well for almost a month now with the default stack size, but I'm
> stuck on how to pass the configurable stack size (CSSIZE) into the
> configure.in test for the C Stack address (CSTACK_ADDRESS) - the final
> connection.

Wondering whether configure can read an rusage limit component on Mingw...

> 
> 3. I have had mixed success with Axiom on Windows - I am now back to
> tracking a crash in the build which mysteriously went away and then
> returned.  This is a lower priority because of the sheer amount of time it
> takes to build.
> 

Yes, it would be most helpful to find collaborators are found in this
area for this reason.  Am always happy to help with posted gdb traces,
etc.  Perhaps David Billinghurst and Bill Page might be willing to help?

> I am also curious as to the state of your 2.7.0 planning.
> 

Have obviously been a bit delayed in putting together this message --
will try to soon.

Take care,

> Cheers
> 
> Mike Thomas.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Gcl-devel mailing list
> address@hidden
> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
==========================================================================
"The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."  --  Baha'u'llah




reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]