[MLton] Sparc+linux

Matthew Fluet fluet@cs.cornell.edu
Sun, 19 Dec 2004 22:39:44 -0500 (EST)


> On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 02:08:45AM +0100, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 04:05:51PM -0500, Matthew Fluet wrote:
> > > > Done. I've attached the build log for hello.sml:
> > > > val _ = print "Hello world\n"
> > >
> > > MLton raised in 35.56 + 6.68 (16% GC)
> > > shrinker raised unhandled exception: Subscript
> > > 	Shrink.shrinkFunction.anon.incLabelMeaning ssa/shrink.fun 249.7
>
> Bug squashed.
> It was a problem with compile options again, just like the other.

Could you elaborate?  When the bug manifests itself relatively well into a
compile, it can sometimes point to some unwarrented assumption in the
compiler.  A genuine "you can't do that on this architecture" bug usually
just crashes when the program starts running.