Alpha VM on Solaris UltraSPARC?

[Nick Forde]

I'm having some trouble running the slate alpha vm and bootstrap image
on a Sun workstation - it core dumps loading the image. Should the vm
run on this architecture?

I've appended some debug information in case this is of use.

Regards,

Nick.


$ uname -a
SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-29 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-880

(gdb) where
#0  0x0001d20c in ObjectPointer_dispatchTo_arity_above_ (name=582768, 
arguments=0xc8148, n=1, resendMethod=0) at ../../../../../vm.c:2920
#1  0x0001ddb4 in PSInterpreter_send_to_through_arity_withOptionals_ (i=0xc8174, 
selector=582768, args=0xc8148, dispatchers=0xc8148, n=1, opts=0x0)
     at ../../../../../vm.c:3128
#2  0x00025574 in PSInterpreter_sendMessage_withOptionals_ (i=0xc8174, n=1, 
opts=0x0) at ../../../../../vm.c:1045
#3  0x0001f4dc in PSInterpreter_interpret (i=0xc8174) at ../../../../../vm.c:3495
#4  0x00014600 in slateMain (argc=2, argv=0xffbef6fc) at ../boot.c:140
#5  0x00016e00 in main (argc=2, argv=0xffbef6fc) at main.c:5

(gdb) list
2915                else
2916                  obj = ObjectPointer_pointer(arg);
2917                map = obj -> map;
2918                if (!(map -> dispatchID == currentDispatchID))
2919                {
2920                  map -> dispatchID = currentDispatchID;
2921                  map -> visitedPositions = 0;
2922                }
2923                if (((map -> visitedPositions & (1 << index)) == 0) && 
(((map -> flags & MapFlagRestrictDelegation) == 0) || (restricted < 0)))
2924                {

(gdb) p *obj
$5 = {header = {isMarked = 1, idHash = 299, objectSize = 5, objectFormat = 0}, 
map = 0xd1c14}

(gdb) p *map
$2 = {header = {isMarked = 1, idHash = 14101, objectSize = 9, objectFormat = 2}, 
map = 0xd42bc, traits = 265112, flags = 1, representative = 264808,
   numDelegates = 7, numSlots = 1, slotTable = 0xd1c48, roleTable = 0xd1c78, 
visitedPositions = 0, dispatchID = 0}

(gdb) p map->dispatchID
$1 = 0

(gdb) p currentDispatchID
$2 = 1