[Mono-dev] Still working on AIX ;-)

[Randall Stewart]

Hi all:

I am still working on AIX trying to make mono run..

I am now to the point where I can get most
of the regression tests to pass... but I am still
a ways out.

One thing that I have not figured out how to fix is the way
AIX works with null pointer references.

It appears that you can do a read NULL pointer
reference and NOT get a SIGSEGV.

I.e.:

{

    int *foo, x;
    foo = NULL;
    x = *foo;
}

Will NOT get you a segv but instead will get
x set to 0.

This causes some of the regressions to fail...

Does anyone know some magic way to get AIX to give a SEGV on
a null pointer reference?? Or is there a flag or some machine dependent
thing I can flip to make Mono happy with this?


Help would be much appreciated :-)

R

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Randall Stewart
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