Re: MPS: Please check if scratch/igc builds with native compilation

["Gerd Möllmann" <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>]

Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com> writes:

>> I'm throwing the towel now wrt to native compilation + MPS on macOS. It
>> fails here both on arm64 and x86_64 on macOS 14. It's a long story what
>> all I tried to debug this, let's me just say I suspect, with the highest
>> probability among all the possibilited, a bug in MPS, without me being
>> able to point to it. Gut feeling. Anyway - it was an experiment.
>
> I have small change to MPS because gcc complained about an uninitialized
> variable.  But I doubt it has much effect:
>
> diff --git a/code/arenavm.c b/code/arenavm.c
> index 50708e956..1a789b959 100644
> --- a/code/arenavm.c
> +++ b/code/arenavm.c
> @@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ static Res VMArenaCreate(Arena *arenaReturn, ArgList args)
>    VM vm = &vmStruct;
>    Chunk chunk;
>    mps_arg_s arg;
> -  char vmParams[VMParamSize];
> +  char vmParams[VMParamSize] = { 0 };
>  
>    AVER(arenaReturn != NULL);
>    AVERT(ArgList, args);

Right, made no difference for me either.