Custom Query (1030 matches)

I fetched clozurecl-1.2-rc1-freebsdx8664.tar.gz from ftp.clozure.com. Extracted it. It does not start.

FreeBSD alka-seltzer.headcraft.de 6.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE #0: Wed Jan 16 01:31:10 UTC 2008     root@palmer.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
alka-seltzer 104_> ./fx86cl64
exception in foreign context
Exception occurred while executing foreign code
? for help
[2829] OpenMCL kernel debugger: b

Framepointer [#x7FFFFFFFDCC0] in unknown area.

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Gary Byers <gb@…> wrote:
Sometimes when running the Cocoa IDE, people have reported seeing messages like:

'SystemFlippers: didn't consume all data for xmnu ..."

or something similar appear in the console window. Andrew said that he saw this when double-clicking on a lisp file to start the IDE.

AFAIK (er, "according to Google searches") this has something to do with Apple code not handling endianness of (classic Macos-style) resource IDs in some cases. AFAIK, these messages are harmless and uninteresting. I don't know how to tell in the general case whether a message like this is interesting; seeing meaningless gibberish like this presented as if it was something that the user would and should care about doesn't create a good impression; not calling the user's attention to something that's actually important isn't ideal either.

It's probably closer to the right thing to give some indication that there's some sort of diagnostic output available and not automatically pop up the console window when that output first appears. Whatever that indication is it should somehow be visible without being intrusive.

(I think that there are some leftover calls to NSLog in the IDE itself.)

Presumably it is useful on some other systems as well. If it is deemed a potential 'untrusted' location, it should at least be acceptable to do it conditionally on running on FreeBSD.