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authorLoren J. Rittle <ljrittle@acm.org>2002-04-09 01:35:21 +0000
committerLoren J. Rittle <ljrittle@gcc.gnu.org>2002-04-09 01:35:21 +0000
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* include/private/gcconfig.h (DATAEND): Clarify comment.
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+2002-04-08 Loren J. Rittle <ljrittle@acm.org>
+
+ * include/private/gcconfig.h (DATAEND): Clarify comment.
+
2002-04-08 Hans Boehm <Hans_Boehm@hp.com>
* include/private/gc_priv.h (WARN macro): Add "GC warning:" prefix.
diff --git a/boehm-gc/include/private/gcconfig.h b/boehm-gc/include/private/gcconfig.h
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* DATAEND, if not `end' where `end' is defined as ``extern int end[];''.
* RTH suggests gaining access to linker script synth'd values with
* this idiom instead of `&end' where `end' is defined as ``extern int end;'' .
+ * Otherwise, ``GCC will assume these are in .sdata/.sbss'' and it will
+ * cause failures on alpha*-*-* with ``-msmall-data or -fpic'' or mips-*-*
+ * or ia64-*-* without any special options.
*
* ALIGN_DOUBLE of GC_malloc should return blocks aligned to twice
* the pointer size.