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guile segfaults on 32-bit big-endian targets

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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz <at> physik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: 45214 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, deller <at> gmx.de, dave.anglin <at> bell.net, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org, debian <at> mkarcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de
Subject: bug#45214: guile segfaults on 32-bit big-endian targets
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 14:50:16 +0300

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On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 09:19:51PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi1
> 
> On 4/14/21 4:18 PM, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> > I spent some more time bisecting guile so I could create a diff against
> > 3.0.5 and then spent another two weeks or so bootstrapping Guix from my
> > custom bootstrap binaries out to mesa.
> > 
> > I've attached the patch that's likely to go into Guix to add powerpc
> > support. Other than the mysterious failing test I've changed the
> > GUILE_OPTIMIZATIONS in bootstrap/Makefile.in to '-O1
> > -Oresolve-primitives -Ocps' on powerpc and it seems to be working fine.
> 
> Since this issue affects all 32-bit big-endian targets (hppa, m68k, ppc),
> we should consider extending your patch to consider all these targets,
> shouldn't we?
> 

Guix doesn't target those platforms so it's not something that I've had
the chance to test yet.

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