Re: Algol68 compiler (algol68toc) on Linux?

From	Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.misc, comp.compilers
Subject	Re: Algol68 compiler (algol68toc) on Linux?
Date	2013-02-25 17:05 -0800
Organization	None to speak of
Message-ID	<13-02-007@comp.compilers> (permalink)
References	<13-01-024@comp.compilers>

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Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> writes:
> I've downloaded the Algol68 compiler package 'algol68toc_1.15.tar.gz'[*] and
> compiled[**] and installed it on a Xubuntu Linux 2.6.32. When I ran it I got:
>
> Run time fault (aborting):
> Garbage collector:HEAP allocation of object whose size is not a word multiple
> Abort
>
> Has anyone compiled and used this package and can give me some hints how to
> make that beast run?
>
> Janis
>
> [*] Source: http://www.nunan.myzen.co.uk/algol68/algol68toc_1.15.tar.gz
> [**] I've seen no configure file, so I compiled it as it came with 'make'.

It's probably a different package, but I've successfully used

    apt-get install algol68g

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Algol68 compiler (algol68toc) on Linux? Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2013-01-29 02:56 +0100
  Re: Algol68 compiler (algol68toc) on Linux? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2013-01-30 15:00 -0800
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