[Gm2] Saviour on Solaris 10

[john o goyo]

Greetings:

It seem that you may now be our only hope for ISO-complaince under Solaris 10, 
Gaius.  GPM Modula-2 does not work under Solaris 10 -- everything dumps core. 
 I asked GPM about this and received the following response (along with my 
request sent August 3rd).

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Greetings:

On 2005-08-03, John Gough <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi John, hi all.
>
> There is a known problem with the solaris version that has to do
> with the alignment of value parameters of IEEE double type.
>
> Early versions of  solaris used only 4-byte alignment (for params,
> locals and statics were always 8-byte aligned) but later
> versions do a copy of the incoming value to a 8-byte aligned location.
> In principle we could fix this if it is a really big issue.

Thank you for your reply.

Is there a workaround?  At present, both gpm and gpmake core dump so
that I cannot even build helloworld.

Sincerely,
john
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I have yet to receive a reply and fear for the worst, namely that they will 
abandon Modula-2 under Solaris.  (I know that this begs the question of the 
worth of ISO Modula-2 but that is another story. #6-)

Sincerely,
john