Re: [Swarm-Support] Need help on a Mac OS X

[Bill Northcott]

On 22/04/2005, at 7:10 AM, Tim Kohler wrote:
> Hi all. Here's a slightly different OS X (10.3.9) problem. I am trying 
> to
> run a greatly updated version of the venerable Village model under
> Swarm2.2. This model runs perfectly under Cygwin on a PC. After 
> overcoming
> some linking problems after bringing it over to the Mac side (by doing 
> a
> make clean, and then remaking) it bombs right away when I run it. 
> Running
> it under gdb, here's the backtrace:
........
> aSelector=0x1780d10) at ../../../../src/collections/Collection.m:216
> #7  0x0171c5f8 in __builtin_avcall ()

IMO this will be your problem.  The builtins on the Apple 3.3.1 (and 
FSF 3.3) compiler are broken on PowerPC and most other RISC 
architectures.   They only work on x86 which is why Cygwin works for 
you.  You need a gcc 4.0 compiler in which they have been fixed.

Apple released sources for gcc-4061 with the Darwin 7.9 sources last 
week.  You could try that.  Or if you wait a week or so, I hope to post 
a more up to date compiler on the ftp site.  Otherwise Tiger is 
released at the end of next week and that should have a working 
compiler.

You could try the gcc-4020 that is there already but it may have issues 
unless you also get an up to date cctools.
> #8  0x016f4c4c in -[FCall_c performCall].61 (self=0x61d1a90, _cmd=0x0) 
> at
> ../../../../src/defobj/FCall.m:757

Bill Northcott