[cmucl-imp] Build failure on gcc-4.6 [resend with other user]

[Raymond Toy]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Peter Van Eynde <pvaneynd at mailworks.org>wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> If one uses gcc-4.6 to recompile cmucl then the test defined in:
>
> src/lisp/os-common.c: os_stack_grows_down
>
> always returns 0, even on x86/Linux where the correct answer is 1. I'm
> guessing that this is due to the added smarts in gcc-4.6.
>
> This causes the resulting lisp binary to segfault on startup, see Debian
> bug 483331.
>
> I 'fixed' this by making the function always return 1 as I'm only
> concerned about x86/Linux :).
>
>
Interesting.  I wonder if os_stack_grows_down_1 were moved to another file
would fix this.

I'll also look around to see if I have gcc 4.6 somewhere on my machines

Thanks for the tip,



> After this major hurdle expect 20c in Debian soonish...
>

Fantastic!

Thanks,

Ray