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

[robert delius royar]

Wed, 5 Apr 2006 (17:00 -0600 UTC) Jerry James wrote:

> Hi Robert,
>
> robert delius royar <xemacs at frinabulax.org> wrote:
>> 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
>
> Ah, June.  That was the month I was moving into a new house and getting
> rear-ended.  What fun!
>
> What version of the gmp library are you using?
>
> For what it's worth, I don't get the compiler warnings you listed on
> i386 Fedora Core 4, i386 Fedora Core 5, or x86_64 Fedora Core 5.  FC4
> and FC5 both shipped with gmp 4.1.4.
>
> Regards,

The compile I posted yesterday is 4.1.4.  The one from June 2005 was 
earlier, but I do not recall how earlier.  I know I had to update when I 
updated gnumeric.

Since no one else has reported this, I suspect it is powerPC specific. 
It occurs on both my G4 and G5 machines.  I do not know if it is also OS 
X specific or related to gcc4.0x.  However, gcc4 does issue more 
warnings than did gcc3.3 or gcc3.4 on my system, and it will not build 
some large well-known projects that use old C++ code.  But that is not 
related to the gmp failures.

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