[Simh] Recent build crashes on OSX

Michael Huff mphuff at gmail.com
Wed Feb 17 15:00:28 EST 2016



On 2/17/16 10:53 AM, Timothe Litt wrote:
> On 17-Feb-16 14:48, Michael Huff wrote:
>> I grabbed simh_master.zip from github yesterday and compiled it on OSX
>> and in a virtualbox instance of Linux Mint 17. OSX is the native OS,
>> Linux is in a VM.
>>
>> I have a 43BSD machine accessible to both on a shared drive. It will
>> boot normally when I run vax780 inside of the Linux VM, but  when I
>> run the vax780 binary I compiled in OSX it crashes.
>>
> If I had to guess, it would be that the shared drive is not presenting
> the same data to both environments.
>
> Perhaps it's treating the binary file as text and adding <CR><LF>s -- or
> some such.
>
> I'd checksum the file from both sides before assuming it's a SimH issue.
>
> But that's only a guess....
>
It's a good idea. OSX has md5 and Linux has md5sum; I'm going to assume 
that they're the same tool with different names.

OSX output:
$ md5 rq.dsk
MD5 (rq.dsk) = f29cdac56ede456dcba7e30fc7d9dd6c
Linux output:
$ md5sum rq.dsk
f29cdac56ede456dcba7e30fc7d9dd6c  rq.dsk

The checksum appears to be the same in both.


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