Problem with malloc on PA
Matthew Wilcox
willy@ldl.fc.hp.com
Wed Apr 25 17:06:00 GMT 2001
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:00:27PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> willy@ldl.fc.hp.com (Matthew Wilcox) writes:
>
> > _lt_spinlock_t in our tree, see my other mail.
>
> I generally available type. From the above I assume there is none and
> this is an issue with the locking hardware support. In this case
> we'll do something else. We allow MALLOC_ALIGNMENT to be defined on
> the compiler command line and only use the default if it isn't. The
> PA Makefiles will then define it as 16. I'll make this change now.
The other patch would make _lt_spinlock_t a generally available type.
For all other architectures, it would be an int, for PA, a 16-byte-aligned
int.
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