Parrot broken yet again: x86/long double and SPARC/any config

[Andy Dougherty]

On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Reini Urban wrote:

> 2009/2/15 Andy Dougherty <doughera at lafayette.edu>:
> > On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Andrew Dougherty wrote:
> >
> >> This weekend, I tried to build several configurations of parrot.  All
> >> failed!  Something's gone wrong in the packfile stuff.
> >
> > I forgot to mention:  This was svn r36689
> 
> r36854 was against your first problem, the other problems should also be fixed.
> My compilers didn't catch that because I don't have this arch to test.
> I've added a whole bunch of new float converters.
> 
> A 2nd problem on Sparc64 was tracked at TT #364,
> And I thought that this is a more general problem, that cannot be solved easily.
> But your were saying it worked before fine. Do you relax ptr alignment ?
> -xmemalign=4i for example?

No, but I don't know if I've tried a 64-bit build on SPARC anytime in the 
past few years. My Solaris/SPARC system normally runs 32 bit.  Digging 
back in my (very incomplete) archives, I'd estimate my last 64-bit builds 
were in late 2004.

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    Andy Dougherty		doughera at lafayette.edu