Re: [Maxima] Fw: [Gcl-devel] Re: gcl on ms windows

[Tim Pierce]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 11:13:11AM -0500, Camm Maguire wrote:
> "Mike Thomas" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > > I have found at least part of the trouble with the Mingw32 port of GCL by
> > > comparing the compilation methods for GCL and Maxima.
> > >
> > > The problem revolved around "cmpnew/cmpmain.c".
> > >
> > > Apparently twelve nulls had to be inserted between the compiler generated
> > > object code.  I intend to test further to double check this as I am not
> > > absolutely certain whether this is necessary.  A further problem was that
> 
> This is rather odd.  Perhaps it will become clearer when I can see the
> changes you'd like to check in?

I haven't been actively working on GCL for a few months, so please pardon
me if this is already well known, but Bill Schelter's GCL 2.4.0 release
did indeed require inserting twelve NUL characters into the object files,
at least on some platforms.  I'm not enough of a systems hacker to know
why this was necessary, or under what circumstances.

Just saying that Mike Thomas is not crazy for concluding that this
was necessary. :-)

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