[M3devel] Bootstrapping cm3 on OS X 10.9.5

[Rodney M. Bates]

Well, I have not been able to reproduce this on AMD64_LINUX, nor see by looking
at code what it might be.  ISTR that it is some kind of front-end/back-end
mismatch.  But the CGType codes that m3cc in trying to read have not changed
in either the front-end nor the back-end since the release.  0x17 is well
out of range.  m3cc must be lost and trying to interpret something else as
a type.

On 05/17/2015 09:48 AM, Rodney M. Bates wrote:
> This is a familiar error to me, but I can't remember the details right off hand.
> I would have said it was an old m3cc, but you have built the latest one,
> so that theory goes down the drain.  I'll see what I can reconstruct.
>
> On 05/16/2015 06:18 PM, Olaf Wagner wrote:
>> After several years I've just tried to setup a current cm3 on my computer
>> again. I've cloned the repository from github/modula3/cm3, installed
>> the latest binary archive for Darwin I could find -- which is that of
>> the 5.8.6 release several years ago -- and tried to compile some sources.
>>
>> This always fails with lots of these errors:
>>
>> m3cc (aka cm3cg) failed compiling: PklFpMap.mc
>> new source -> compiling FpIntTbl.m3
>> m3cgc1: fatal error:  *** illegal type: 0x17, at m3cg_lineno 4
>> compilation terminated.
>>
>> regardless if I use the 5.8.6 backend or build a new cm3cg from
>> sources (which actually succeeds).
>>
>> Any suggestions how to continue?
>> Are newer bootstrap archives available somewhere?
>> Any hints are appreciated.
>>
>> Olaf
>>
>

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Rodney Bates
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