Re: __data_start symbol missing from alpha ELF... (fwd)

[Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Christopher C Chimelis <chris@beezer.med.miami.edu> writes:

> FYI...ran into this while trying to get libgc4 to work on Alpha...
> 
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> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 12:29:17 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Christopher C Chimelis <chris@classnet.med.miami.edu>
>
> Hate to be a pain, but while trying to get GC to compile (Boehm garbage
> collector), I noticed that the 2.1.2pre versions of
> sysdeps/alpha/elf/start.S don't define a symbol for the start of the data
> segment.  This is causing problems with the GC since it needs to have a
> symbol for the beginning of the data segment (or an address, which in this
> case is variable).

Have a look at the gc included in libgcj from cygnus, they seem to
have solved the problem, since it compiles on Alpha.

	Falk