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1.1       maekawa     1: Should work under OSF/1 and Linux.  Currently no VMS or NT support, though
                      2: the latter shouldn't be hard.
                      3:
                      4: Incremental gc not yet supported under Linux because signal handler
                      5: for SIGSEGV can't get a hold of fault address.  Dynamic library support
                      6: is also missing from Linux/alpha, probably for no good reason.
                      7:
                      8: Currently there is no thread support in the standard distribution.  There
                      9: exists a separate port to DEC Unix pthreads.  It should be possible to
                     10: port the X86 Linux threads support to Alpha without much trouble.
                     11:
                     12: If you get asssembler errors, be sure to read the first few lines of the
                     13: Makefile.
                     14:
                     15: From Philippe Queinnec:
                     16:
                     17: System: DEC/Alpha OSF1 v3.2, vendor cc
                     18: Problem: can't link if libgc has been compiled with "cc -std1".
                     19:          It works if the library has been compiled with either gcc or "cc"
                     20:          alone. The problem is because the variable "end" is not defined if
                     21:          compiling in std1 mode (see man ld).
                     22: Proposed fix: none. Don't use cc -std1 !