Patch: improve huge page support

[Andrew Haley]

On 05/12/2011 05:47 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> On 12:30 Thu 12 May     , Andrew Haley wrote:
>> On 05/11/2011 10:23 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>> On 17:13 Wed 11 May     , Andrew Haley wrote:
>>>> On 05/11/2011 05:04 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>>>> On 16:08 Wed 11 May     , Andrew Haley wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> snip...
>>>>>
>>>>>> I won't bother with 1.8.  I'll push to 1.9 and 1.10.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ok, post the patches and I'll approve them for those branches.
>>>>
>>>> Righto.  I'll do that once you have renamed the patch files.  Let me
>>>> know.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I still can't build IcedTea6.  Did you push the build fix for this, in one form or another?
>>
>> I'm surprised by this: AFAIK this is a Debian-only gcc bug.
>>
> 
> Make it a Debian and Gentoo issue.  This is the problem with having -Werror on.

OK, I'm doing a bit more digging to try to find out the real cause of this.
We should be able to find some build flags that are compatible with all
GNU/Linux distros so that this sort of thing doesn't happen again.

> I agree and was planning to do the same thing.  Do you know if they discussed
> this on the mailing list?  I really dislike bundling unrelated fixes in this
> manner.

I saw nothing.

>> OK to commit?
>>
> 
> Looks ok for HEAD to me, assuming it still builds.

OK.  I don't understand the "assuming it still builds" issue, though.
It always has built for me.

Andrew.