Re: [Swarm-Support] corrupt .swarmArchiver that's not there(lispProcessPairs error)

[Paul Box]

Thanks for the input Bill.  My problem turned out to be more mundane (posted a 
short time ago).  I am planning on upgrading to Tiger soon, and will be 
interested in your experiences in using swarm in that environment. 


>This looks like the nested methods bug from the Apple gcc-3.x  
>compilers.  All official Apple gcc-3.x compilers have the problem.   
>The LispArchiver code has very deeply nested method calls.
>
>I think the library is good but maybe the way you call it finds the  
>problem.  The library was built with the patched gcc-3.3 which is on  
>the Swarm download site.
>
>Now that gcc-4.0 is officially released both by Apple and FSF, I will  
>be switching to that.  It has fixes for many bugs including this one.
>
>While you are waiting for a new binary, you might try getting the  
>gcc-4061 code from the Darwin 8 Source code site and building that.   
>It may solve your problem.  You will need the cctools package from  
>Darwin 8 first to get an updated linker etc.
>
>Bill
>
>PS I have a new compiler, but it was built on Tiger and probably  
>won't run on Panther.
>
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