From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id OAA24256; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:53:46 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA24482 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:53:45 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from inria.fr (macaque.inria.fr [128.93.8.158]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g9ECrg509920; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:53:42 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 23:37:44 +0200 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] the same signal handling problem on powerpc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v546) Cc: caml-list@inria.fr To: John Hale From: Damien Doligez In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <02516558-DEF4-11D6-8BEE-0003930FCE12@inria.fr> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.546) Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Sunday, Oct 13, 2002, at 22:02 Europe/Paris, John Hale wrote: > Namely, I have a program that uses signals, works fine in bytecode, > but crashes with "bus error" > > This is with ocaml-3.06 on Mac OS X 10.2.1, PowerPC. The problem goes > away on Linux running on intel. Are you using the vanilla 3.06, or did you follow the instructions in this page ? There is a signal-related problem with 3.06 on MacOS 10.2, due to a change in an undocumented API between 10.1 and 10.2. The web page above gives a patch to fix this problem (and also the Sys.command bug). While I'm talking to the list, the page also explains how to get Caml Light working on Mac OS X. -- Damien ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners