How to debug the scheme/guile interpreter?

2013-01-09 Thread Peter Teeson
Greetings: Mac Pro 4,1 - MacOS 10.7.5 I filed bug and Ludo' invited me to investigate which I've been doing, including reading the other bugs on this problem http://bugs.gnu.org/10015, http://bugs.gnu.org/10681. My conclusion at this time, after a number of experim

Re: bug#13342: Errors trying to build Guile 2.0.7

2013-01-18 Thread Peter Teeson
MacOS X 10.7.5 Lion. MacPro 4,1Intel dual CPU quad cores. I've been away for a while so haven't worked on this. Back now and picking up the thread. The bug is 13342 (see also 10015 and 10681) triggered by running make check > bad return from expression `(f-sum -1 2000 -3 400)': expec

Re: bug#13342: Errors trying to build Guile 2.0.7

2013-01-23 Thread Peter Teeson
Hi Andy: Thanks for your patient help. GNU make and friends is entirely new to me at the detail level. I did the following (starting from scratch): (0) Starting with the guile-2.0.7 tar ball ./configure && make && make check This used gcc and had 77 warnings and 1 test failure bad return from

Re: [PARTIALLY SOLVED] bug#13342: Errors trying to build Guile 2.0.7

2013-01-27 Thread Peter Teeson
Hi Ludo: MacOS 10.7.5 Intel Dual CPU quad cores Many thanks for your reply. A nice demo but, no disrespect, maybe not really the issue. Looking at the generated code from each compiler was going to be my next step after taking a look at the stack and regs to see what got passed/pushed/popped in