Alpha VM on Solaris UltraSPARC?

[Nick Forde]

Unfortunately using -mno-faster-structs didn't work but switching to 
-O0 did.
For reference I tried building slate using GCC v3.2.3 on a number of 
other Unix
platforms and didn't encounter any other compatibility problems.
The vm and mobius/vm/platform/unix code appears to be very portable - 
nice job!

These worked OK using -O2:

Linux 2.4.9-enterprise #1 SMP, i686
OSX Darwin 7.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.8.0, powerpc
AIX 3 4 0000C35B4C00 - IBM,7043-260

and the following core dumped with -O2 but worked with -O0:

SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-29 sun4u sparc SUNW, Sun-Fire-880
HP-UX B.11.00 U 9000/785 2011991039, J6000 Workstation

Nick.

On 13 Mar 2005, at 00:02, Lee Salzman wrote:

> In our case it is definitely a problem with GCC. The field of the 
> structure in
> question may be aligned to an 8 byte boundary, but the structure 
> itself  is
> only aligned to a 4 byte boundary in the Slate heap. This is, overall, 
> a policy
> decision on GCC's part to ignore this possibility to eek out a few 
> more cycles
> here and there.
>
> It seems the options -mno-faster-structs on SPARC may entirely solve 
> this
> problem, and it may be that at higher optimization levels GCC assumes
> -mfaster-structs. The man page says this controls the assumption of 8 
> byte
> alignment of structures. So ya'll try using -mno-faster-structs and 
> see what
> happens.
>
> Lee