Re: installation problems on sun network

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "AVK" == Axel von Kamp <address@hidden> writes:

AVK> As an aside: Why does it on
AVK> http://www.santafe.edu/projects/swarm/platforms.html say: With
AVK> the Sparc, avoid GCC 2.8?

All the info there on Solaris was obsolete.  I've deleted it.  Thanks.
(The problem is now detected and avoided by autoconfiguration.)

[The __builtin_apply `bug' w.r.t. Sparc has been pretty much defined
away by the GCC developers: they don't like the __builtin_apply design
and don't put a priority on supporting it.  The problem with
__builtin_apply is that it assumes stack-based calling conventions.
At one point MessageProbes in Swarm relied on this compiler feature,
now we use the libffi and ffcall libraries.]


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