On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 07:05:04PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Xavier, you are more aware of what might (or might not) happen here, > would you like to have a look, and/or continue this discussion with John ?
err, you mean LaMont (me), yes? > > fstd (128 bit store) is used in setjmp to save state - unless ocaml is > > generating its own hppa assembly (and using fstd...), then it's elsewhere. > I doubt it does that, but let's Xavier respond on this point. GAH! Make that: ocaml was doing a 64-bit store (with fstd) to a 32-bit aligned address. (Gotta remember to keep my architectures straight...) Since malloc always returns a 64-bit aligned address, you have to work to be unaligned... > Maybe it is possible that he has an account already. I remember there > being hppa problems two years ago or so. Don't know if it is active > still though. ISTR he might. lamont
