Re: Status of lush ia64 bug
Leon Bottou <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.lisp.lush.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 10:54 am, Leon Bottou wrote: > I can see two possible causes: > > 1- A floating exception (problems we encountered on mipses) > The fix would then be easy. > > 2- A bfd issue in the dynamic loading/unloading code. > This could result from gp constructs in IA64 ELF. > Fixing this would require significant work. > We'd have to temporarilly declare lush unavailable on IA64. > > I would need less than one hour of access to an IA64 machine > to determine the nature of the problem. Fixing problem 1 > would be immediate. Fixing problem 2 would take weeks. After checking the IA64 ABI, I am certain that problem 2 occurs. - L. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink & Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285