[m-dev.] Did someone break the installed mmc?

David Glen JEFFERY dgj at cs.mu.oz.au
Fri Oct 17 11:59:36 AEST 1997


> I'm getting
> 
> 	Software error: code_info__get_variable_slot: variable `HeadVar__2'
> (2) not found
> 
> when mmc tries to generate a .c file (it generates interface files just
> fine).  This is trying to compile my ~pets/pmer/compiler/purity.m file.  It
> compiled (in fact bootchecked) on Wednesday, and I haven't done much of any
> significance to it since then.  It also seems I'm not the only one to notice
> such problems (Tom and DJ are having similar difficulties).  Any ideas
> what's wrong?

I suspect it has something to do with zs' changes to liveness that were
checked in yesterday. Anyhow, as a temporary workaround, compiling with
"-O3" seems to work.


love and cuddles,
dgj
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MEngSc student,                     |  you failed miserably. The lesson
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University of Melbourne, Australia  |           -- Homer Simpson



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