root@libove.UUCP (The Super User) (06/13/88)
Well, the infamous SCO Xenix 2.1.4g development system INFINITE SPILL bug has bitten again... I got the posting of gnuchess version 2, with its unbelieavbly (and rather stupidly I think) huge gnuchess.c module... and after correcting (er, ah, simplifying) a few expressions on the first 1500 lines or so, the compiler chugs its way through to 1654 where is gets another infinite spill error on the statement: atk1 = atak[c1]; atk1 is a (short *). atak[] must be an array of (short *) I expect... The point is, I can't simplify that expression any further! Is there anything else I can do at all, other than upgrade? Maybe does someone have a split up gnuchess.c that can compile (period) and do so in under twenty minutes a run? (Big source modules really make the SCO compiler grind slowly...) Oh well, please pardon the slightly inflammatory tone, and thanks. -- Jay Libove (Jay.Libove@andrew.cmu.edu or pitt!darth!libove!libove)
hugly@diox (C Hugly) (07/05/88)
I also encountered this problem when compiling little smalltalk.
After having removed all the "register declarations" witch saved me hours of
expression simplifying, i got an infinite spill on such a simple expression.
Many trys (some of them very stupid) later i had the divine intuition that
the bug occured just two lines after the real cause, whatever those two lines
could be. The faulty line whas one using a macro, i turned the macro into a
function and never got infinite spills again.
by the way: my smalltalk compiled but still dont work...i always get a
"index out of range in basicAtPut" when parsing script.ini.
Does somebody know about this ?
J-C
PS: and will somebody tell me what the hell is a spill !
some kind of compiler affection?