[M3devel] Modula-3 on Alpha/osf

[Jay K]

It can compile itself. No stack walker currently.
User threads were used accidentally and worked. pthreads now.
No gui apps tested.

Compiling m3-libs/arithmetic:

Program received signal SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception.
0x00000001203c8c80 in TFloat__Multiply ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00000001203c8c80 in TFloat__Multiply ()
#1  0x000000012034a334 in ReelExpr__Multiply ()
#2  0x0000000120373e10 in MultiplyExpr__Fold ()
#3  0x00000001201ff810 in Expr__ConstValue ()
#4  0x0000000120203744 in Constant__Check ()
#5  0x0000000120163100 in Value__TypeCheck ()
#6  0x00000001201853b4 in Scope__TypeCheck ()
#7  0x000000012017cfdc in Module__TypeCheck ()
#8  0x0000000120159b14 in M3Front__DoCompile ()
#9  0x00000001201589f8 in M3Front__Compile ()
#10 0x0000000120059418 in Builder__RunM3 ()


Really, not all that interesting, the system has proven very portable.


Untested min distribution (with above bug):
http://modula3.elegosoft.com/cm3/uploaded-archives/cm3-min-ALPHA_OSF-d5.8.2-20100612.tar.gz

Thanks to Mika for running the hardware/OS.


more later,
 - Jay