Re: Is there any difference between SUN and LINUX?

[Ying Luo]

Rob Browning wrote:

> Ying Luo <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > We use guile_1.2 now for our tool's Interpret Interface. It works well both
> > in HP and SUN, but when it runs on Linux (64 bits), the program come into
> > crash in scm_boot_guile_1 (...) calling setjmp(...) . I checked the codes
> > in guile_1.5.4 and found that there was no setjmp(...) during the
> > initialize.
> >
> > Will this difference lead to the crash? I am so puzzled... Could anyone
> > give me some advice/suggestion?
>
> Guile 1.2 isn't likely to work on a 64 bit machine.  In fact, if I'm
> not mistaken, even guile 1.4 won't work right on 64 bit architectures.
> However this should now be fixed in both the current stable CVS branch
> (i.e. the pending 1.6.1 release), and the current unstable CVS branch.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> --
> Rob Browning
> rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org
> Previously @cs.utexas.edu
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Thank you very much!

But we can run guile 1.2 on 64 bits SUNOS properly and the same as HP64, do you
mean that only on Linux64 our current released guile doesn't work right?

Please give me more suggestion. Thank you again!