Re: Compilation of Classpath with ecj on a 64-bit VM

[Gary Benson]

Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew John Hughes <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> Andrew> I recently hit on the same bug again for the second time,
> Andrew> and still there seems to be no general solution to it.
> 
> The general solution is to track down a newer version of the mprec
> code and import it.  There is a version of mprec out there somewhere
> which dynamically sizes its internal buffers -- that is what we
> need.
> 
> Andrew> The original message that refers to is even older (January
> Andrew> 2004).
> 
> I checked in something like this not too long ago.
> 
> 2005-09-15  Tom Tromey  <address@hidden>
> 
>       Workaround for PR classpath/23863:
>       * native/fdlibm/mprec.h (MAX_BIGNUM_WDS): Define as 128 on
>       non-Pack_32 platforms.
> 
> See this PR (or maybe there is some other mprec PR too, I forget)
> for more info.

More detail about this can be found here:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=166657

Cheers,
Gary