[Ecls-list] fatal: relocation errors on Solaris x86 and OpenSolaris 64-bit.

[Dr. David Kirkby]

On 11/ 5/10 11:16 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:48 AM, Dr. David Kirkby
> <david.kirkby at onetel.net>wrote:
>
>> Several months ago I discovered that Maxima would not build in Sage on
>> 64-bit
>> OpenSolaris. ECL built, but Maxima would not. [...]
>> At the time, I did not have a clue whether this was a Maxima, ECL or Sage
>> issue,
>> but now I believe it is an ECL issue, as the link-editor thinks the shared
>> object contains text relocations.[...]
>
>
> Seems that the problem was caused by ECL's threaded interpreter
> optimization, which uses a computed goto. This computed goto is just working
> fine in all other versions of GCC in all other platforms. The obvious
> solution was to deactivate that optimization (a pity, because it is a
> powerful one) for Sun's platform. I have just finished a 64-bit build of ECL
> on Solaris using GCC without problems. Sorry for the delay.
>
> Juanjo
>


BTW, could you make the activation/deactivation an option? Since it causes no 
problems on 32-bit builds to my knowledge, it would be nice to be able to enable 
the optimization. Otherwise it will cause a performance regression on 32-bit 
builds.

Dave