Neil Jerram wrote: [snip] > > however, one of those patches is only a workaround. > > > > There are two problems: > > - For Linux on mips/mipsel the gc definitions look decidedly strange, > > I replaced those with more sensible variants. > > > I believe those definitions came from the Boehm GC library. Do you happen > to know whether similar improvements have already been applied to Boehm GC?
The development version of Boehm GC carries a subset of it since: http://bdwgc.cvs.sourceforge.net/bdwgc/bdwgc/include/private/gcconfig.h?r1=1.28&r2=1.29 This might be enough to make it work, altough I believe my patch is preferable. > > - For at least mips, but probably a number of other architectures as > > well, the stack direction check goes wrong. It looks like gcc > > outsmarts the autoconf test. I worked around by removing the test, > > this breaks HP/UX on hppa, and probably also some old Cray machines. > > > So is it the case that the stack actually grows down on mips (and mipsel and > powerpc)? Yes. (This is the the case for almost all machines nowdays.) > Did you see (or work out) exactly how gcc was outsmarting the > test? No, I only concluded this from the test's incorrect result. Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
