[Simh] Compile problems with SIMH V3.7-3

[Jason Stevens]

Out of curiosity, do the binaries on the sourceforge site work for you at
all?

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=154308&package_id=244757


On 10/15/07, Matjaz Rihtar <matjaz at eunet.si> wrote:
>
> I tried to compile my own version of SIMH on Windows XP, mainly because:
>
> 1. I want to use WinPcap 3.1, because I would like to
>    continue to use Ethereal 0.99.0, which doesn't work
>    with WinPcap 4.0.1 yet.
> 2. I wanted to automatically spawn external telnet
>    application (putty), when starting SIMH with
>    set console telnet=xxx (like it's done in Personal
>    Alpha)
>
> Plain SIMH V3.7-3 compiles just fine with WinPcap 3.1 on
> .NET 2003 *and* MinGW gcc 3.4.5, but on both compiled
> vax.exe-s I am getting the same same error - NULL pointer
> in routine get_uint(scp.c:3180):
>
> t_value get_uint (char *cptr, uint32 radix, t_value max, t_stat *status)
> { ...
> *status = SCPE_OK;
>
> This is called from rq_set_type(pdp11_rq.c:2224):
>
> t_stat rq_set_type (UNIT *uptr, int32 val, char *cptr, void *desc)
> { ...
> t_stat r;
> ...
>     cap = (uint32) get_uint (cptr, 10, 0xFFFFFFFF, &r);
>
> Before getting into get_uint, everything is fine (r is not NULL),
> but if I look at disassembly, I can see one additional
> "push 0" to the stack (after push [r]), which causes get_uint to fail
> with NULL pointer exception.
>
> Has anybody experienced the same problem? First I thought .NET 2003
> produces false code, but then the same happened with MinGW gcc.
> There were no optimizations involved in both cases.
>
> Please help!
> Thanks,
>   Matjaz
>
>
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