Bruce O'Neel wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It finished correctly.  Therefore this is the only change for this platform.
> If you want I'm happy to tar it up and put it someplace, but, it is for
> NetBSD 3.
>
> cheers
>
> bruce



sincerely Thanks a million!:)

Your changes worked for me too.

I have ecl! :)))

Paul.







>
>
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 03:24:34PM +0000, Bruce O'Neel wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Sorry, I deleted the orig email so I can't reply.
> >
> > Making the change for udiv_fp.asm -> udiv_nfp.asm gets me
> > to ecl_min starting up and it's still running and will so for several
> > hours.  My recollection is that without the udiv_fp.asm change
> > it will crash building two files.
> >
> > The first was cmp/cmpffi.lsp and the second was lsp/mislib.lsp.
> >
> > The problem is that divisions of bignums cause a bus error with
> > udiv_fp.asm.  They don't, happily, happen with udiv_nfp.asm.
> >
> > If you don't want to change udiv_fp.asm you can build ecl
> > on some other (non sparc 32 system) and then copy cmpffi.* and mislib.*
> > from that system to your sparc system and build them manually.  Then
> > restarting make will continue beyond those files.  The resulting ecl
> > though will someimes bus error when you use bignums.
> >
> > All of the above is according to my faulty memory and I'll be able
> > to tell you in a few hours how faulty the memory in fact was.
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > bruce
> >
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