fine-grain bounds checking for egcs-20000110

[William Bader]

I have converted Richard Jones' fine-grain bounds-checker to work with
egcs-20000110.  The patches against egcs are about 1.5 MB uncompressed
(because I included all of the original postscript documentation).
The bzip2 version is about 700 MB and uuencoded it is about 1 MB.

I have tested them under SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 using sco cc to bootstrap.

Under Linux 2.0.35, checked programs get errors; I think that
the POINTER_IN_DLL macro in gcc/bounds/lib/check.h needs tuning.

The patches are also available by ftp through the URL
<A HREF=" ftp://nscs.fast.net/pub/binaries/boundschecking "> Bounds Checking Patches</A>
The server has a dial-up PPP line, so the download will take about 5 minutes.

I can email the uuencoded patches on request, although I might be out of
the office for the next three or four weeks.

My changes are freely copyable, and I can have the necessary paperwork filled
out, but for now, it doesn't matter since Richard Jones has not released the
copyright of his original work to the FSF.

William Bader
Senior Analyst
Software Consulting Services
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