Re: Portable bitwise operations library (was Re: Portability Considerations)

[john o goyo]

Greetings, Alice.

On 2024-03-22 16:13, Alice Osako wrote (in part):
> I've finished the GCC Modula-2 implementation for x86_64, at least as 
> far as I can tell. I may have overlooked something, but I don't 
> believe so.
>
> I've re-written the test suite to be somewhat more systematic, and 
> while it is still pretty ad-hoc it does at least exercise all of the 
> procedures and functions defined in the API (at least, I think it 
> does, I may have missed something somewhere). I've diffed the 
> voluminous output of the tests for both of the implementations 
> (through the simple expedient of redirecting the output to a pair of 
> text files), and they now are in agreement, so I can at least say that 
> if they are flawed, then both are flawed in the same ways.

I am a little confused here.  I tried compiling CardBitOps.mod (on 
Solaris 11.3/sparc) and receive the following strange error.

[~/opt/Alice]=> gcc-git -c -fiso -I. CardBitOps.mod
<built-in>: error: the file containing the definition module cannot be found


Gaius, any insight here?

Sincerely,
jog