Re: hppa ocaml build failure :(((

[LaMont Jones <lamont@mmjgroup.com>]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 02:54:25PM +0200, Xavier Leroy wrote:
> Right.  OCaml has its own garbage-collected memory management, and,
> yes, it can access double floats at word-aligned addresses.
> This is the theory.  The practice is that the autoconfiguration
> procedure might have detected incorrectly the alignment constraints
> (this happened to Sven Luther on the SPARC with a recent version of
> gcc), or were fooled by a kernel that performs alignment fixups behind
> the program's back.

hppa's kernel generally fits the latter case (automatically does the
fixup)  Adding the change to the configure script would be a good idea.

thanks,
lamont