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

[Jerry James]

robert delius royar <xemacs at frinabulax.org> wrote:
> I mistyped in my last reply.  I did NOT see "a bignum" in the output, and I
> should NOT have.  So it looks like the problem is something to do with my
> --enable-union-type setting.  On the G5, if I remove that, I get a working
> bignum-enabled XEmacs.  I haven't tried again on my G4, but the compilation I
> tried last summer (gcc4.00) failed with any configuration using bignum.  The
> G5 uses gcc4.01, which warns infewer places and fails less often than did
> gcc4.00.

Yes, the union type setting seems to be quite good at triggering
compiler bugs.  Can I take it then that we have resolved the issue, at
least as far as your G5 is concerned?  Is there any possibility of
upgrading the compiler on the G4?

Regards,
-- 
Jerry James, Assistant Professor        james at xemacs.org
Computer Science Department             http://www.cs.usu.edu/~jerry/
Utah State University