[comp.windows.x] XDisplayName & X on the RT PC

papa@uscacsc.UUCP (Marco Papa) (05/06/87)

First of all thanks to all the people that sent me copies of XDisplayName.
I finally got the new xterm to run on the RT PC under ACIS 4.2 and X10R3.
I got it to work by using pcc instead of hc (High C). When compiled with
High C, xterm dumps core.  When compiled with pcc, everything runs just
fine.

-- Marco
   USC-ACSC

edmoy@opal.berkeley.edu (05/07/87)

In article <202@uscacsc.UUCP> papa@uscacsc.UUCP (Marco Papa) writes:
>First of all thanks to all the people that sent me copies of XDisplayName.
>I finally got the new xterm to run on the RT PC under ACIS 4.2 and X10R3.
>I got it to work by using pcc instead of hc (High C). When compiled with
>High C, xterm dumps core.  When compiled with pcc, everything runs just
>fine.
>
>-- Marco
>   USC-ACSC

We've had problems with hc too.  I haven't had time to really look into
why xterm core dumps under hc, mainly because it isn't compatible with
dbx and I can't and won't use the assembly language debugger (a major
problem with RISC machines in my mind).

When we tried it, hc would blow up trying to compile the RT server from
Brown.  Even compiling simplier things like bib86 didn't work.  So we
are using pcc exclusively now, until hc settles down.

Edward Moy
Academic Computing Services
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720

edmoy@opal.Berkeley.EDU
ucbvax!opal!edmoy

treese@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Win Treese) (05/09/87)

> We've had problems with hc too.  I haven't had time to really look into
> why xterm core dumps under hc, mainly because it isn't compatible with
> dbx and I can't and won't use the assembly language debugger (a major
> problem with RISC machines in my mind).

Strange.  We had no problems with the X10.4 xterm compiled under hc, though
there were some minor changes necessary to get it to comile.

> When we tried it, hc would blow up trying to compile the RT server from
> Brown.  Even compiling simplier things like bib86 didn't work.  So we
> are using pcc exclusively now, until hc settles down.

The Brown X server code used macros that expanded into lines too long for hc
to handle.  This (and some other problems) have been fixed and should be in
later versions of hc.

	Win Treese
	MIT Project Athena
	treese@athena.MIT.EDU