Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] MIT Scheme on the AMD x86-64

[Chris Hanson]

And I forgot the most important thing: THANKS TAYLOR!!!!!  This is awesome.

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Chris Hanson <address@hidden> wrote:
> I've pushed some OS X changes to git, but I still haven't got a working 
> compile.
>
> The current problem I'm looking at is this:
>
> ./makegen/m4.sh  cmpauxmd.m4 > cmpauxmd.s
> as -arch x86_64  -o cmpauxmd.o cmpauxmd.s
> cmpaux-x86-64.s:309:32-bit absolute addressing is not supported for x86-64
> as: fatal error in /usr/bin/../libexec/gcc/darwin/x86_64/as
>
> According to a Google search, this is a deliberate restriction imposed
> by Apple.  I think it's easily fixed, but I'll have to spend some time
> looking at the assembly-language reference to figure out how.
>
> I note that this is the sole reference to the SDX macro in that file;
> all the ABS references are properly formatted.
>
> BTW, I noticed that you preserved most of the random windows/os2 stuff
> in the x86-64 files.  I'm not sure about windows, but all of the os2
> stuff can be nuked since it doesn't run in 64-bit mode and never will.
>
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Taylor R Campbell <address@hidden> wrote:
>>   Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:07:29 -0700
>>   From: "Arthur A. Gleckler" <address@hidden>
>>
>>   Any guess about whether this will run on OS X?  (I'm building it on
>>   Linux right now.)
>>
>> I haven't tested it on OS X, but I imagine it should run; there is
>> nothing specific to Linux in the port.
>>
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