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diff --git a/gc/README.alpha b/gc/README.alpha deleted file mode 100644 index 213a13e..0000000 --- a/gc/README.alpha +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ -Should work under OSF/1 and Linux. Currently no VMS or NT support, though -the latter shouldn't be hard. - -Incremental gc not yet supported under Linux because signal handler -for SIGSEGV can't get a hold of fault address. Dynamic library support -is also missing from Linux/alpha, probably for no good reason. - -Currently there is no thread support in the standard distribution. There -exists a separate port to DEC Unix pthreads. It should be possible to -port the X86 Linux threads support to Alpha without much trouble. - -If you get asssembler errors, be sure to read the first few lines of the -Makefile. - -From Philippe Queinnec: - -System: DEC/Alpha OSF1 v3.2, vendor cc -Problem: can't link if libgc has been compiled with "cc -std1". - It works if the library has been compiled with either gcc or "cc" - alone. The problem is because the variable "end" is not defined if - compiling in std1 mode (see man ld). -Proposed fix: none. Don't use cc -std1 ! |