On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 10:15:15AM -0600, LaMont Jones wrote: > 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.
Ok, my next release of ocaml (ocaml 3.07-7) will have this fix included, Do you want to test it first, or should i go ahead and upload it ? Also, i suppose we need to rebuild all the ocaml packages that where built with previous versions, don't we ? Friendly, Sven Luther
