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Re: gij runs HelloWorld on PPC Linux

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Sturm <jeff.sturm@commerceone.com> writes:

Jeff> I agree it's a special case.  There was an analogous fix for the compiler:
Jeff> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2000-04/msg01161.html

Hmm, I seem to remember that :-)

I checked in a variant of your patch.

Jeff> Odd thing is, the compiler doesn't seem to have anything like
Jeff> NULLCHECK.  Maybe it isn't needed on any interesting platforms.

Oh, it is.  Andrew has a patch for this but I don't know how heavily
it has been tested yet though.  We never got around to implementing it
because we've generally been using systems where you can catch the
segv.

Tom
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