[M3devel] m3_load/store using bitfields for everything

[Tony Hosking]

Jay, can you try these again with the latest fix I put in place?

On 20 May 2009, at 09:14, Jay wrote:

>
> m3_load/store using bitfields for everything caused module-global  
> references to disappear on MIPS64_OPENBSD (all MIPS?). I worked  
> around that by declaring that the module-globals are at least of  
> size 2 * biggest_alignment.
>
> It caused module-global references to disappear on ARM_DARWIN as well.
> I hardcoded RTLinker.traceInit to true, and Flush's len := 0 didn't  
> occur and PutChar eventually failed an array bounds check.
>
> Is this just too fragile and the failsafe form should always be used?
>
> Or, it fails spectacularly consistently enough that it must also be  
> working consistently enough and leave it?
>
> Would "component ref" (ie: struct) and declaring more type  
> information about module segments be a good compromise maybe?  
> Probably.
>
> - Jay