From: Loren J. Rittle <ljrittle@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 01:35:21 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: * include/private/gcconfig.h (DATAEND): Clarify comment.
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* include/private/gcconfig.h (DATAEND): Clarify comment.

From-SVN: r52054
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diff --git a/boehm-gc/ChangeLog b/boehm-gc/ChangeLog
index 157adaa780aa..896ec3e3bcff 100644
--- a/boehm-gc/ChangeLog
+++ b/boehm-gc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2002-04-08  Loren J. Rittle  <ljrittle@acm.org>
+
+	* include/private/gcconfig.h (DATAEND): Clarify comment.
+
 2002-04-08  Hans Boehm  <Hans_Boehm@hp.com>
 	
 	* include/private/gc_priv.h (WARN macro): Add "GC warning:" prefix.
diff --git a/boehm-gc/include/private/gcconfig.h b/boehm-gc/include/private/gcconfig.h
index a3f468f68911..9151a2ff796d 100644
--- a/boehm-gc/include/private/gcconfig.h
+++ b/boehm-gc/include/private/gcconfig.h
@@ -453,6 +453,9 @@
  * DATAEND, if not `end' where `end' is defined as ``extern int end[];''.
  * RTH suggests gaining access to linker script synth'd values with
  * this idiom instead of `&end' where `end' is defined as ``extern int end;'' .
+ * Otherwise, ``GCC will assume these are in .sdata/.sbss'' and it will
+ * cause failures on alpha*-*-* with ``-msmall-data or -fpic'' or mips-*-*
+ * or ia64-*-* without any special options.
  *
  * ALIGN_DOUBLE of GC_malloc should return blocks aligned to twice
  * the pointer size.