[5983] in Athena Bugs
your problems with Saber 3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Sat Sep 8 14:22:31 1990
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 90 14:22:16 -0400
From: Ken Raeburn <Raeburn@MIT.Edu>
To: janson@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Thanks for your reports. In preparing to send them to Saber Software,
I've run across the following:
1. The library loading problem: Can you provide me a copy of the
library? Did you do anything special to generate the library? Did
you use -g or not? What does "contents" give you after the error?
2. sbrk: If you type "man options", you get a list of the options
available with the "setopt" command, including:
sbrk_size (Default is 1048576 bytes) Specifies the amount of
memory that can be allocated by the sbrk(2) and
brk system calls. It must be set before a
program's first use of sbrk (do not make the
first allocation with brk in Saber-C).
Programs that use only the malloc(3) functions
are not affected by this option. Only programs
that call the sbrk(2) system calls directly
(usually programs that contain their own
memory allocation routines) will be restricted
to allocating the amount of memory specified
by this option. The upper limit for this
option is usually limited by the amount of
swap space available on the system.
3. preprocessing: Can you provide me with complete files? The stuff
you sent (preprocessing lines only, plus the lines that got errors)
did indeed generate errors from Saber, but that was because types were
used that weren't defined (MCBoolean, Cell). When I inserted
definitions for them, I didn't have any problem.
Thanks for testing out Saber version 3!
-- Ken
