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From: bruno@hpfcso.HP.COM (Bruno Melli)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Re: GNU Smalltalk/Emacs Interactor Problem (and STIX)
Message-ID: <9050001@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 27 Aug 90 17:24:09 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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>> "Also, anyone have STIX working on an HP 9000?"

I just made quick and VERY dirty changes to compile STIX on a 9000/345
running 7.0.

I replaced calls to alloca() in mstcomp.c, mstsave.c, and mstsym.c
to calls to malloc(), and then calls to free() just before the
return of whatever function was calling alloca().
Note that there is still a call to alloca() in mst.tab.c. In this case,
I just wrote a dummy alloca that just calls malloc(). (This is the VERY
dirty part :-) I'll look a little more into it when I get a chance.

I also coded my own version of bcopy() :
void bcopy(s1, s2, l) /* assume no overlapping */
    char *s1, *s2;
    int l;
{
    for(;l--;)
	*s2++ = *s1++;
}

There is also a call to getdtablesize() in socket.c.  
You can get the desired value by calling sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX). You need
to #include <unistd.h>.
Note that I didn't try this. Over the weekend I didn't know how to get the 
desired value so I just put some arbitrary number and it worked.

When I first ran mst, it didn't work until I added my machine name on line
75 of t.st.

    "Create the initial display connection"
    d _ Display host: '' display: 0.

    "Create the initial display connection"
    d _ Display host: 'my machine' display: 0.

After these changes, everything went fine.

Have fun,

bruno.