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From: lbn@iesd.auc.dk (Lars Bo Nielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
Subject: Re: help request on edml installation
Message-ID: <LBN.90Jul26091534@pink.iesd.auc.dk>
Date: 26 Jul 90 08:15:34 GMT
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In-reply-to: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk's message of 25 Jul 90 09:29:31 GMT

In article <5301@castle.ed.ac.uk> nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes:
>In article <1990Jul24.114932.6727@forwiss.uni-passau.de>, grass@unipas (Grass) writes:
>>Our problem is the following: starting SML in its raw state from
>>smlcore.exp.backup (step 3 in the README instructions) crashes immediately
>>with the message "Memory fault".
>>Invoking the program explicitly (by typing:
>>  /fam.src/fam -h 2000 smlcore.exp.backup smlcore.exp
>>) seems to work, but any simple input (e.g. - 3+2;) crashes with an access
>>violation in routine "RunState" at line 547.
>
>My first guess: bugs in the C compiler. I've often had to simplify
>expressions in the EdML interpreter to get correct behaviour. The
>other thing to check is all the byte-sex flags and so on in the
>configuration header file, but since it's getting as far as relocating
>the heap and giving you a prompt, I doubt this is wrong.
>
>>Wolf-Dieter Tiedemann
>
>  Nick.

I had a similar problem when I ported edml to the Atari ST. I found
the problem was in the macro isatty_() defined in system.h. I was
compiling with Gnu CC. It defines __STDC__ and isatty_() then gets
defined to always return 0.

So what I did in the port to the Atari ST was to place this in the end
of system.h:

	#ifdef atarist
	/* isatty_() was defined to 0 in #ifdef __STDC__. This is bad, as fam 
	   will just exit when an error is encountered (fam thinks that stdin 
	   is a file).
	   We set isatty_(fp) true, if fp is stdin, stdout or stderr. */
	#undef isatty_
	#include <stdio.h>
	#define isatty_(fp) (fileno(fp)==fileno(stdin)      \
			     || fileno(fp)==fileno(stdout)  \
			     || fileno(fp)==fileno(stderr))
	#endif

BTW. If somebody is interested in running edml on an Atari ST let me
know. I could post the a diff file (5K) or the executable (70K).

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