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From: peter@memex.co.uk (Peter Ilieve)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xps dumps core on sparcstation
Summary: Just remove -O from x11.c
Message-ID: <340@memex.co.uk>
Date: 8 Dec 89 10:33:12 GMT
References: <1989Dec6.163746.20598@relay.nswc.navy.mil>
Reply-To: peter@memex.co.uk (Peter Ilieve)
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In article <1989Dec6.163746.20598@relay.nswc.navy.mil> Dave Sill writes:
>Here's what I get when I try to run xps:
>% adb xps
>core file = core -- program ``xps''
>SIGBUS 10: bus error
>$c
>_HardwareExtent(0x4f537,0x1fb40,0x4,0x0,0x0,0x0) + 1c
> ...
>(Compiled with GCC 1.36 on SPARCstation-1 running 4.0.3c and MIT
>sample server)

It dies in the same place with cc as well.
The problem is something to do with returning structures.
It works here, using cc, if you compile just x11.x without -O.
I don't know enough about gcc to know if you would need -fpcc_struct_return
as well.


	Peter Ilieve		peter@memex.co.uk