Subject: Re: Prolem setting up Vortex/Cecil 3.0 on Solaris (problem in gc)
From: Craig Chambers (chambers@cs.washington.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 17 2000 - 15:32:12 PDT
Hmmm. There is no more recent version of Vortex. How did you fix the GC
library? I think that when you ran Vortex, you ran the prebuilt version that
contained the old (and apparently not working for you) GC library, and so you
got the same error. Where is the newer GC library? What kind of Sun are you
running? (If it's something really new or really old, then it's possible that
the stack layouts are different than what we expect.)
If you're just interested in Cecil, then be aware that the Cecil interpreter
executable might be more convenient for small programs than the Vortex
optimizing compiler.
-- Craig Chambers
James McCarron wrote:
>
> Hello:
>
> I have downloaded the following:
>
> Vortex-Vortex-3.0.solaris.tar.gz
> Vortex-Cecil-3.0.solaris.tar.gz
> Vortex-Java-3.0.solaris.tar.gz
>
> When trying to install I ran into a problem with the Boehm GC
> build. Running the `gctest' program during the build gave
> this result:
>
> STACK_GROWS_DOWN is defd, but stack appears to grow up
> sp = 0xffbef03c, GC_stackbottom = 0x0
> stack direction 3
>
> Abort (core dumped)
>
> I corrected this part of the build by using a newer version
> of the collector, but later on the build failed again when
> the `vortex' program ran:
>
> [pts/11][9111][18:02:42]excalibur% bin/solaris/vortex
> STACK_GROWS_DOWN is defd, but stack appears to grow up
> sp = 0xffbef03c, GC_stackbottom = 0x0
> stack direction 3
>
> Abort (core dumped)
>
> (Same error.)
>
> Using gdb, I get the following backtrace (using the GC library
> as distributed, built with symbols) from `gctest':
>
> (gdb) where
> #0 0x7fb169c0 in _libc_kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
> #1 0x7fab9340 in abort () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
> #2 0x197f0 in GC_abort (msg=0x20390 "stack direction 3\n") at misc.c:745
> #3 0x194a4 in GC_init_inner () at misc.c:464
> #4 0x19580 in GC_enable_incremental () at misc.c:565
> #5 0x16fd8 in main () at test.c:944
>
> I get the nearly same call stack from running gdb on `vortex' after it aborts:
>
> (gdb) where
> #0 0x7fb169c0 in _libc_kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
> #1 0x7fab9340 in abort () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
> #2 0xce5168 in GC_abort ()
> #3 0xce4e1c in GC_init_inner ()
> #4 0xce4ef8 in GC_enable_incremental ()
> #5 0xcafab0 in runtime_main ()
> #6 0xc05ac8 in main ()
>
> My system is:
>
> [pts/11][9112][18:02:45]excalibur% uname -a
> SunOS excalibur 5.7 Generic_106541-02 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10
>
> Is there a newer version/build available? Alternatively, can I correct this
> problem myself somehow? (It appears that a working compiler is needed to
> bootstrap, so I'm guessing no?)
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> James
>
> PS: I am actually interested mostly in Cecil; I can live without the Java frontend.
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