Re: yforth in slink
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Paul Slootman wrote:
> Has anyone managed to get yforth working? Someone apparently got 0.1beta-8
> compiled, but did they test the result after the dozens of warnings the
> compile produced... (all "pointer / int" conversion warnings). I get an
> instant sigsegv, and upon inspection of the code the reason is clear
> enough; the code expects that a data type "Cell" is big enough to contain
> a pointer. Additionally, it *demands* that another data type "DCell" is
> double the size of "Cell", so simply defining "Cell" to be long doesn't
> help (I tried :-).
>
> So, my suggestion is to blackmail this package as non-alpha material,
> demand its removal from the archive and then forget all about it :-)
> Any protests?
Agreed. No other package relies on it from what I can tell anyway, so
let's get it done :-)
Oh, I'm going to be running a new glibc compile, am currently building a
new egcs, and am releasing an updated binutils (to fix an Obj-C warning)
this week, fyi to everyone.
C
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