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authorljrittle <ljrittle@138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4>2002-04-09 01:35:21 +0000
committerljrittle <ljrittle@138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4>2002-04-09 01:35:21 +0000
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* include/private/gcconfig.h (DATAEND): Clarify comment.
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk@52054 138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4
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@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+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
index a3f468f6891..9151a2ff796 100644
--- a/boehm-gc/include/private/gcconfig.h
+++ b/boehm-gc/include/private/gcconfig.h
@@ -453,6 +453,9 @@
* 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.