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Re: hppa ocaml build failure :(((



On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 07:16:02PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> Err, yes. LaMont is your first name, and Jones your surname ? Sorry
> about hte confusion.

no problem.

> Well, the bytecode interpreter and garbage collector does its own memory
> stuff, and i don't think it does special assembly stuff. 

Unaligned setjmp buffers would be one case (malloc'ed struct that then has
an odd-4-byte multiple of stuff in front of the buffer passed to setjmp.

> But now i am confused, you told us earlier on that it had to be 16 byte
> (or 128 bit) aligned, is this no more the case ?

My screwup.  setjmp on ia64 requires 16-byte aligned data, setjmp on hppa
requires 8-byte (and does a 64-bit store, not a 128-bit.)

lamont



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