[ clisp-Bugs-1924513 ] endianness problem on sparc?

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Bugs item #1924513, was opened at 2008-03-24 18:03
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Category: clisp
Group: build problems
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Vladimir Volovich (vvv2)
Assigned to: Bruno Haible (haible)
Summary: endianness problem on sparc?

Initial Comment:
when building clisp-2.44.1 on Sparc Solaris 2.8 using Sun Studio 11 compiler, i get an error:

during make, when lisp.run is being run for the first time, it stops with a prompt, and i entered a few statements which seem to indicate that there are endianness problems:

./lisp.run -B . -E 1:1 -Efile UTF-8 -Eterminal UTF-8 -norc -m 2MW -x "(and (setq custom::*load-paths* (quote (\"/opt/home/vvv/src/clisp/clisp-2.44.1/src/\"))) (load \"/opt/home/vvv/src/clisp/clisp-2.44.1/src/init.lisp\") (sys::%saveinitmem) (ext::exit)) (ext::exit t)"
WARNING: locale: no encoding 646, using ISO-8859-1
WARNING: locale: no encoding 646, using ISO-8859-1
*** - Hash table size 16777216 too large
1. Break> (+ 1 0)
1
1. Break> (+ 1 1)
29360130
1. Break> (+ 2 0)
2
1. Break> (+ 2 1)
29360131
1. Break> ^D
[/opt/home/vvv/src/clisp/clisp-2.44.1/src/eval.d:527] reset() found no driver frame (sp=0xffbef9a0-0xffbeb4d0)

Exiting on signal 6
Bye.
make: *** [interpreted.mem] Abort (core dumped)


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>Comment By: Vladimir Volovich (vvv2)
Date: 2008-03-24 18:46

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i thought it was related to endianness because of weird results for (+ 1
1) and (+ 2 1). maybe it is 32-vs-64-bit problem. please let me know how to
help debugging this problem.

i have gcc, and i'll try it (i have a binary clisp package from
blastwave.org which works, so it is likely that gcc build will work), but
hopefully it will be possible to build clisp using Sun Studio as well.


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Comment By: Sam Steingold (sds)
Date: 2008-03-24 18:34

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oops, lispbibl.h requires gcc.
so, clisp detects the endianness correctly.
why did you think that is the problem?

do you have gcc installed?


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Comment By: Vladimir Volovich (vvv2)
Date: 2008-03-24 18:28

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$ make lispbibl.h
make: *** No rule to make target `lispbibl.h'.  Stop.
$ grep lispbibl.h Makefile 
        -$(RM) lispbibl.h clisp.h *.i *.s *.o *.a lisp.run clisp-link
makevars ansi-tests-log
$ ./lisp.run -B . -E 1:1 -Efile UTF-8 -Eterminal UTF-8 -norc -m 2MW -x
"(and (setq custom::*load-paths* (quote
(\"/opt/home/vvv/src/clisp/clisp-2.44.1/src/\"))) (load
\"/opt/home/vvv/src/clisp/clisp-2.44.1/src/init.lisp\") (sys::%saveinitmem)
(ext::exit)) (ext::exit t)"
WARNING: locale: no encoding 646, using ISO-8859-1
WARNING: locale: no encoding 646, using ISO-8859-1
*** - Hash table size 16777216 too large
1. Break> SYS::*BIG-ENDIAN*
T
1. Break> ^D
[/opt/home/vvv/src/clisp/clisp-2.44.1/src/eval.d:527] reset() found no
driver frame (sp=0xffbef9e8-0xffbeb518)

Exiting on signal 6
Bye.
Abort (core dumped)


Please let me know if you've got an idea of what further tests i should
make to clarify the nature of the problem.


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Comment By: Sam Steingold (sds)
Date: 2008-03-24 18:17

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type
$ make lispbibl.h
$ grep BIG_ENDIAN_P lispbibl.h
what is SYS::*BIG-ENDIAN* in lisp?


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