[M3devel] LONGINT used by m3quake/cm3 packages

[Tony Hosking]

You can bootstrap (non-Windows) from pre-LONGINT, building and shipping in the following order:

Using old (release) cm3

m3middle
m3linker
m3front
m3quake
cm3

This cm3 uses old run-time libraries, but now understands LONGINT and LONGCARD.

m3core (new, with LONGINT/LONGCARD)
libm3 (new, with LONGINT/LONGCARD)
sysutils
m3middle
m3linker
m3front
m3quake
cm3

This cm3 uses new run-time libraries.

On 15 Jan 2010, at 18:45, Jay K wrote:

> 
> I'm able to bootstrap the current system from pre-LONGINT using upgrade.py.
> I'm not sure, but our regular builds might do that.
> Not so now though.
> I think you might be saying however that such a compiler might have bugs in it?
> 
> - Jay
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
>> From: hosking at cs.purdue.edu
>> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:50:17 -0500
>> To: jay.krell at cornell.edu
>> CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com; m3commit at elegosoft.com
>> Subject: Re: [M3devel] LONGINT used by m3quake/cm3 packages
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 15 Jan 2010, at 16:56, Jay K wrote:
>> 
>> VAL(LONGINT, INTEGER) is fine outside of cm3/m3quake,
>> but I think what I had is the way to go.
>> The bootstrapping pain is otherwise novel.
>> 
>> The bootstrapping pain is now no more novel than when LONGINT was first introduced...
>> 
>> The compiler doesn't otherwise use LONGINT.
>> (My doing that it started using it.)
>> It ought not until after the current release?
>> 
>> ... so it is pointless trying to build new libraries with an old compiler because the old compiler is built to compile files against old libraries.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> - Jay
>> 
>> 
>>> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:51:15 +0000
>>> To: m3commit at elegosoft.com
>>> From: hosking at elego.de
>>> Subject: [M3commit] CVS Update: cm3
>>> 
>>> CVSROOT: /usr/cvs
>>> Changes by: hosking at birch. 10/01/15 22:51:15
>>> 
>>> Modified files:
>>> cm3/m3-sys/m3quake/src/: QCompiler.m3 QScanner.i3 QScanner.m3
>>> 
>>> Log message:
>>> Revert to VAL.
>>> 
>>