Re: Need help finding heap corruption bug

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

(Assuming we're talking about MacOS X on Intel-based macs.  Maybe
`i386-apple-darwin*' is the correct GNU triple?)

"Pat Lasswell" <address@hidden> writes:

> make check produces 6 failures.  I haven't tried 1.4, but 1.8 doesn't even 
> build.
> FAIL: goops.test: defining generics: define-generic: creating a new top-level
> binding
> FAIL: goops.test: defining generics: define-generic: overwriting a top-level
> binding to a generic
> FAIL: goops.test: defining accessors: define-accessor: creating a new 
> top-level
> binding
> FAIL: goops.test: defining accessors: define-accessor: overwriting a top-level
> binding to an accessor
> ERROR: regexp.test: regexp-quote: regexp/extended: (char 254 ? ? ?) - 
> arguments:
> ((regular-expression-syntax "make-regexp" "empty (sub)expression" #f #f))
> FAIL: regexp.test: regexp-quote: regexp/extended: (string "aX" 254 ? a? a?)
> FAIL: regexp.test: regexp-quote: regexp/extended: string of all chars

These failures are quite worrying, although they do not explain the heap
corruption you are experiencing.  I don't know what the status of Guile
1.6 on OS X (in general) is, so I don't know whether these are "known"
OS X problems, or whether it just shows up on OS X for PCs.  Maybe
someone else can help on this?

As for 1.8, could you report the exact build problems that you have (in
a separate thread)?

Thanks,
Ludovic.