Bignum support still broken on powerpc (ping: Jerry James)

[robert delius royar]

Wed, 5 Apr 2006 (22:38 +0200 UTC) Adrian Aichner wrote:

> robert delius royar <xemacs at frinabulax.org> writes:
>
>> Now that Jerry James is back, I wanted to report again that big number
>> support appears to break something about the byte compiler when
>> linking (on powerpc Mac) during the first pass at creating an XEmacs
>> executable.
>>
>> The breakage first began some months ago, and I reported it then.
>
> Hi Robert, is this the one?
>
> http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200506/msg00220.html

Yes, it is.  I believe I followed up in XEmacs-beta to say that the -Os 
flag I thought was related did not seem to matter (i.e. removing it just 
changed where the failure occured).

> Just testing the xemacs-beta archives and search engine :-)
>
> Adrian
>
>>
>> I tried to build today with -enable-bignum=gmp.  I got the same
>> breakage.
>>
>> My system is Mac OS X 10.4.6 (both a G4 and a G5).  I compile with
>> gcc4.01.  The error is
>>
>> *** Error in XEmacs initialization
>> (wrong-type-argument sequencep 34)
>> *** Backtrace
>>   really-early-error-handler((wrong-type-argument sequencep 34))
>>   define-key(#<keymap global-map size 6 0x250f> 34 self-insert-command)
>>   # bind (n)
>>
>
>

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Dr. Robert Delius Royar                   Associate Professor of English
Morehead State University                             Morehead, Kentucky