Re: Bug#481378: Guile-1.8 FTBFS on mips (and other architectures)

2008-05-28 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/5/28 Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > After a closer look I believe the logic of the test is just plain wrong: > > aux (l) unsigned long l; > { int x; exit (l >= ((unsigned long)&x)); } > main () { int q; aux((unsigned long)&q); }, > > The test returns true for a downward-growing stack,

Re: Bug#481378: Guile-1.8 FTBFS on mips (and other architectures)

2008-05-28 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Neil Jerram wrote: > 2008/5/24 Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Neil Jerram wrote: > > > > > > I believe those definitions came from the Boehm GC library. Do you > > happen > > > to know whether similar improvements have already been applied to Boehm > > GC? > > > > The development versio

Re: GNU Guile 1.8.4 released

2008-05-28 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Saturday 24 May 2008 5:19 pm, Neil Jerram wrote: > 2008/5/15 Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Not sure if you have noticed already. The build has failed on ia64 with > > a segmentation fault. Here is the relevant log for ia64 > > > > > > http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=guile-

Re: Bug#481378: Guile-1.8 FTBFS on mips (and other architectures)

2008-05-28 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Neil Jerram wrote: > 2008/5/28 Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > After a closer look I believe the logic of the test is just plain wrong: > > > > aux (l) unsigned long l; > > { int x; exit (l >= ((unsigned long)&x)); } > > main () { int q; aux((unsigned long)&q); }, > > > > The test return