[M3devel] Current version? (WAS: I don't know what changed, or when, but thanks!)

Hendrik Boom hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
Mon Jul 15 18:59:53 CEST 2013


On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 12:30:38PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 10:36:29AM -0500, Rodney M. Bates wrote:
> > If you get m3gdb to realize this is modula-3 code, there will be a lot
> > more useful info in the backtrace, like parameter values.  Probably just
> > doing a 'frame 17', or any M3 frame will do it, or 'set lang Modula-3'.
> 
> Yes, that would probably help.
> > 
> > If you are using the head compiler and debugger, you will need very
> > recent ones (perhaps in the last month?), as changes in the code
> > generator created some regressions.  All that I have seen are now
> > fixed in the current head.
> 
> Time to upgrade, then.

I'm currently running version 5.8.6, which identifies itself as last 
updated on 2010-04-11.  Is that still the latest release?  I haven't 
found a newer.

Does it come ddown to checking out current source from cvs and using 
my existing Modula 3 to compile it?

And does cvsup work again?

-- hendrik



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