Re: Problems with double-word alignment on hppa and sparc

2007-11-28 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Uwe Steinmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071127 14:02]: > I need some help with #94 since I'm neither an ocaml nor a > hppa, sparc specialist. The package orpie ships with its own > gsl ocaml bindings and they cannot be compiled on hppa and sparc > due to an alignment problem. I contacted upstream

Re: Problems with double-word alignment on hppa and sparc

2007-11-27 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 12:29:53PM +0100, Uwe Steinmann wrote: > Well, is there really no hope for fixing this? This appears to > be a more general problem and maybe somebody has solved it already. [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] might know. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Problems with double-word alignment on hppa and sparc

2007-11-27 Thread brian m. carlson
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 12:29:53PM +0100, Uwe Steinmann wrote: I've looked into this a bit, and I'm not sure it can be fixed very easily. The OCaml bindings for libgsl avoid some expensive copy operations by making the assumption that the platform can accept double arrays aligned on word bounda