Alpha compiler fix.

Mon May 1 10:37:00 GMT 2000

Alexandre Petit-Bianco wrote:
> Jakub Jelinek posted a compiler fix for the Alpha. I'm guessing he
> found the problem because he's running things with a different VM
> configuration than the other Alpha hackers on this list. (How can that
> happen? -- I'm just curious.)

That can't happen. ELF program images are already mapped well above the
4GB boundary by the Alpha/Linux kernel.
I have no idea why I can successfully build libgcj without this patch.
(I still get a lot of warnings "conversion from pointer to integer of a
different size" while building libgcj, but haven't investigated yet
because the runtime doesn't seem broken.)
-- 
Jeff Sturm
jsturm@sigma6.com