Re: [csmith-bugs] compilation failure on Solaris SPARC

[Eric Eide <eeide@cs.utah.edu>]

	Nelson> The csmith-2.0.0 distribution fails to compile on Solaris
	Nelson> SPARC, because of invalid or inapplicable assembly code in
	Nelson> src/platform.cpp.  [...]  I'll be happy to provide a csmith
	Nelson> developer with a sample file that provides access to
	Nelson> high-resolution timing over a much wider range of platforms.

That would be great!

	Nelson> I also attempted to build csmith-2.0.0 with Solaris native c99
	Nelson> and CC, but that failed earlier with
	Nelson> 
	Nelson> 	Unexpected type in set_at_type in sparc.c
	Nelson> 
	Nelson> I'm prepared to work with csmith developers to sort out such
	Nelson> portability issues.  csmith is essentially a filter, so it
	Nelson> should need little in the way of system-specific code, and it
	Nelson> deserves to be buildable on all major platforms.  I have about
	Nelson> 25 flavors of Unix in my test lab that could provide extensive
	Nelson> portability testing.

That would also be great!  We would happily accept patches that improve
portability.

Eric.

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