Re: [Gm2] Potential woe with gm2-4.1.2

[Gaius Mulley]

john o goyo <address@hidden> writes:

> On 7 Oct 2013, at 16:08, Gaius Mulley responded (in part):
>> Hi John,
>>
>> the source of gm2 was not changed - I just changed the .deb package.
>> I'm currently trying to rebuild it again - to fix the .deb package
>> such
>> that it copies the crt0.o (and friends) into the gm2 directories.
>> No gm2 code has changed since 2013-01-09 (on the 4.1.2 branch).
>>
>> The newer package - when done should install cleanly on Ubuntu 13.04
>> or
>> Mint 14 (hopefully 15 as well)
>
> Okay but that has no effect on me -- I do not use Linux.
>
> My woe is that the initialization part of the main module is not
> called.  A function call appears in the C++ debug file source but not
> in the object module.
>
> I have not been able to use gm2 for the last few releases so I do not
> know when this went awry.  I also recall this happening years ago but
> I did not record it.
>
> john

Hi John,

just for drilling down, given:

MODULE hello ;

FROM libc IMPORT printf ;

BEGIN
   printf ("hello world\n")
END hello.

even this is not visible in the: hello.o file ?   Or have I misunderstood?

regards,
Gaius