11TSTARK@GALLUA.BITNET (Timothy Stark) (06/05/89)
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Hello, Amiga users:
I have some problems with my Lattice C 5.0 (I did not patch fixes to
it for new 5.02) I will patch them soon. I have memory problems with
compiling big files. It created many memory fragments (largest block
is smaller) which prevent compiling big files with my 512K amiga. It
kept reporting me that "RAM Disk is full". What do I do next? Should I have
need additional memory? To solve this problems. Just copy files in different
filenames then delete old filenames in order to make larger largest available.
Does anyone know that utilities that handle garbage collection? If yes,
please let me know.
Does anyone know that Lattice forget that thing to add bugfixes, etc..
for upgrading to version 5.02? If yes, please let me where can get patches
for 5.02. (I already have 5.02 patch disk that Lattice sent me.) I do
not have access to LBBS or BIX because I do not have a modem for my Amiga.
I have another problems. My program kept to get a visit from GURU.
I cannot find a bug in my source file. I decided to put debug information
at starting routines. When it hits GURU, I get last information from
debug routines. I looked into my source file but I still unable to find
a bug. It must be a bug in compiler which generate incorrect instructions.
It may results as illegal instruction, A emulation, or F emulation GURUs
with task address (.000032D2 -- I am not sure that). What do I do next?
-- Tim Stark
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"Gallaudet University is the only university for the deaf in the world."phil@eos.UUCP (Phil Stone) (06/05/89)
In article <8906041609.AA24115@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> 11TSTARK@GALLUA.BITNET (Timothy Stark) writes: <problems with Lattice 5.0> > I have another problems. My program kept to get a visit from GURU. >I cannot find a bug in my source file. I decided to put debug information >at starting routines. When it hits GURU, I get last information from >debug routines. I looked into my source file but I still unable to find >a bug. It must be a bug in compiler which generate incorrect instructions. >It may results as illegal instruction, A emulation, or F emulation GURUs >with task address (.000032D2 -- I am not sure that). What do I do next? > >-- Tim Stark (Note: I'm responding to comp.sys.amiga so Tim will see this answer, but I think the topic is more appropriate to the .tech group, so follups are directed there). Tim, I assume you have CodeProbe with your Lattice 5.0. You can use this to single-step through suspected problem areas in your code; often this will enable you to see where the crash occurs. However, this is not always enlightening. Am I crazy, or are there some significant code-generation bugs in Lattice 5.02? Here's a brief code fragment-example: I have a structure defined as follows: struct foo { unsigned short shortbar; unsigned char bar2; unsigned char bar3; }; In a certain function, the following code occurs: struct foo *fooptr; unsigned short temp; . . . fooptr->bar2++; if( fooptr->shortbar != 0xFFFF ) fooptr->shortbar = temp; fooptr++; . . . Looking at this area of the code with CPR, I noticed that the generated assembly code incremented 'fooptr' into the MIDDLE of the next structure (a simple wordwise increment, rather than the addition of 4 bytes that is required). Certain tweaking, like changing the unsigned short field to an 'int' field, made the problem go away. But this seems to be a strange problem which was not generated from the same source using Lattice 3.01 (my previous version). What gives? Do y'all need more detail on this? Also, I haven't tried the Lattice on-line support; is this indicated? Again, notice that followups have been directed to comp.sys.amiga.tech. Phil Stone (phil@eos.arc.nasa.gov | ames!eos!phil)