[Cbe-oss-dev] MARS and SPU-GCC 4.6

[Paul Keir]

Hello,

I've built a snapshot of GCC 4.6 for the Cell SPU,
and set my paths to use it and the associated toolchain
for SPU commands. The PPU toolchain is unchanged;
GCC 4.1.1. under Fedora Core 7.

I use MARS, and now have a runtime error; even in
the simplest MARS Hello example. The error is:

MARS task create failed! (8)

The (8) corresponds to the MARS error
MARS_ERROR_FORMAT and likely comes from
the task_map_elf function called by
mars_task_create. I used readelf to look at the
output of the new SPU compiler, and it seems to
produce the same ELF32/SPU files as
SPU-GCC 4.1.1..

Does anyone have an idea what could be causing
the error?

Thanks in advance,
Paul

The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401