Re: [MiNT] c++ crash with lzma-utils (constructors problem?)

[Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr>]

Hello, Alan !

> I'm getting a startup crash (Bus Error) with constructors when using a
> c++ program called lzma-utils.
>
> I remember there being some problems with this in early GCC patches.
>
> Can you try and see if you can see the same problem ?
>
> http://tukaani.org/lzma/

Sure, I will look at it !

There is still problems with GCC 4 and C++.
One of them was the ScummVM "duplicate thunk" problem.
I found a workaround for that, but unfortunately it made appear the 
"cout bug".
And recently I found a crash with some CppUnit tests, probably related 
to exception handling... I didn't have the courage to investigate...

The big problem is that MiNT uses the a.out file format for .o files, 
which is used fewer and fewer... So when there is a bug in GCC related 
to the a.out file format, we are nearly the only ones affected, so it is 
very hard to get some help from the GCC team for fixing it :-(

I gave up for some time the research for the "cout" bug, because it is 
extremely difficult to track down.

However, I hope the problem with lzma is more simple !
I will try to compile it when I have some time.

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Vincent Rivière