Re: quake dumping core...

["Christopher C. Chimelis" <chris debian org>]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:

> Quake is an excellent example of code where ability to link it
> into the lower 32-bit address space (-taso linker option) solved 99%
> of problems, the rest was mostly alignment fixes. BTW, I sent the patch
> implementing -taso ld option to binutils mailing list and to rth
> about a month ago, but nobody was interested...
> Browse ftp://ftp.park.msu.ru/ink, you'll find patched binutils rpms,
> quake patch and precompiled X11 quake binary for ev56 there.

FYI, Debian's binutils in the unstable tree is also patched with your
patch to use the -taso option.  It's good to have the binutils maintainer
for Debian running on an Alpha (me..hehehe) :-)

C