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diff --git a/README.rs6000 b/README.rs6000 deleted file mode 100644 index 3ec26c81..00000000 --- a/README.rs6000 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,21 +0,0 @@ -Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1991 18:01:04 -0300 -From: mjlx@eagle.cnsf.cornell.edu (Mike Lijewski) -To: arnold@audiofax.com -Cc: david@cs.dal.ca -Subject: testing 2.12 on a machine with unsigned chars - -I chose to use the alloca which you supply. The RS/6000 has a builtin -alloca which is accessible using a `#pragma alloca', but I chose not -to use it. Initially, I tried to use it by conditionally compiling it, -similar to the way alloca.h is included on sparcs. But this has -some problems. Firstly, the RS/6000 compiler complains about the -placement of the #pragma, something to the intent that the pragma must -precede all C code. This would be easy enough to fix by conditionally -including the #pragma elsewhere in the relevant files. A more -difficult problem is that the awk.tab.c generated by bison uses -alloca. To fix this the right way, bison would have to be modified to -output the appropriate conditionally compilable code as it does now -for sparcs. If you think it is worth while to use the builtin alloca, -I would be happy to get it working, except for the bison problem, and -send you the diffs. The FSF might also be interested in "fixing" -bison to use the builtin alloca on the RS/6000. |