[m-dev.] diff: boehm_gc/os_dep.c fix for hydra

[Tyson Dowd]

On 24-Nov-1997, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.oz.au> wrote:
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> +Mercury should compile out-of-the-box on Linux for PPC.
> +Thanks to Robert A. Abernathy for his help with this port.
> +
> +However, there are a few things that could be done to "tune" this port.
> +Currently the Linux-PPC port does not yet support
> +	- gcc global register variables
> +	- shared libraries
> +	- stack overflow detection
> +
> +Appended below is some information on how to add support for these.
> +Intrepid hackers, read on ;-)

I have access to a Linux PPC machine (Debian has one), but it's in
Germany, which network wise is about 1 second ping away and can get
as bad as 2. If we don't have any takers to do this job in the short
term, I'm willing to give it a go once I've got some other work out
of the way.

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