Does anyone have any experience with 'cord'?

[Mike Gigante]

dhinds at elaine18.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds) writes:

]I've been playing around with the cache optimizing procedure rearranging
]program 'cord', and have had lots of problems.  I have yet to get it to
]terminate successfully.  Firstly, it doesn't seem to work for me when I
]link a program with the multi-threaded C library.  It just core dumps
]with a segmentation violation.  When I re-linked the same program with
]the regular library (the program is set up so it can run single-threaded),
]I get lots of cord warnings about 'procedure(s) not found' naming things
]in the standard library - several hundred, actually.  Then I get a fatal
]error: 'cord: error: cannot write proc bxform'.  This happens at the stage
]when cord is trying to 'relocate section .text'.  This procedure isn't
]anything special, as far as I can tell.  This is all with the Irix 3.3.1
]stuff.

] -David Hinds
]  dhinds at cb-iris.stanford.edu

I had exactly the same experience under 3.3.2, I haven't tried it with
3.3.3 or with the 4.0 alpha

This was a multi-threaded program that used the m_* routines in the
task library.

I abandonded (reluctantly) the attempted use of cord after a frustrating
couple of days.

Mike Gigante
mg at godzilla.cgl.rmit.oz.au