Illegal Instruction: swarm1.0.3 on sparc-solaris

[Mr S M Emsley]

Having successfully cajoled a system admin to install the sparc-solaris
binary build of swarm_1.0.3 the following error dampened my spirits:

Building heatbugs - O.K no compiler or linker messages
Running heatbugs - illegal instruction

_obj_initModule (module=0x1f418c) at Program.m:179
179       Type_c           ***typeID, *type = nil;

180       char             **symbol, **symbolName, symbolType = 0;

187       if ( ! _obj_modules ) initModules();

initModules () at Program.m:88
88        moduleSuper = [Module_super_ self];
 
Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
0x17822c in __objc_init_install_dtable ()

The gcc version is 2.7.2.3.f.1
sparc-sun-solaris 2.5.1

I notice that there seems to be sparc_sun_solaris 2.4 files hanging around.
For instance libobjc.a exits both in

/usr/local/gnu/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.4/2.7.2.1.f.1/libobjc.a
/usr/local/gnu/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1/2.7.2.3.f.1/libobjc.a

Could this be the source of the problems?

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Steve Emsley
University of Warwick

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