From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Sep 25 00:30:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA16229 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 00:30:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA16207 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 00:30:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id RAA11797; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 17:36:27 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199809250736.RAA11797@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: nevermind :-) In-Reply-To: <199809250725.AAA18028@burka.rdy.com> from Dima Ruban at "Sep 25, 98 00:25:24 am" To: dima@best.net Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 17:36:27 +1000 (EST) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, dfr@nlsystems.com, dima@best.net, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dima Ruban wrote: > Was it a voluntary context switch, since it's pretty clear > that an event that you were waiting for never arrived :-) Or some resource > wasn't and isn't available. How about to push some magic button called panic? > ;-) Bug in brain software no doubt. Probably made worse by poor hardware. > > I was working in a cross-compiled mode to get Modula-3 to work for > > FreeBSD/Alpha. Since Modula-3 works on OSF/1, I built that, then > > made mods so that it would use remote commands for the backend tools > > (gcc, ar, ld). I was able to build the whole thing that way. Without > > the stack walking code, though, the programs just spit an error and > > exit. > > I can see that. Well, let's ask binutils dudes then. John Polstra tells me that the setjmp/longjump implementation should still work. I wish my brain worked - then I might stand a chance of remembering what the issues were. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message