[aspell] Aspell on Alpha

[Kevin Atkinson]

Well my school finally upgraded the gcc on there alpha cluster to gcc
2.95 so I was able to test my program out.  The problem with the long
school names was solved but it involved doing something a bit ugly.  I
also had some other problems with unresolved symbols but there were easy
to solve with a few carefully placed explicit template instantiations.  

Unfortunately, as I have feared.  Aspell is not 64 bit clean as I got a
core dump due to unaligned memory access.  So it looks like you are out
of luck for now.  I plan on reworking the read-only word list in the
very near future so that it can be memory mapped in.  I will defiently
address that issue then and make sure my data structure is 64 bit clean.

If you are still interested I can send you an updated tarball that
should compile with gcc 2.95 on dec-alpha.  You might be able to fix the
alignment issue by copying the variable into a temporary.  However, I
have not actually debugged it so I am not sure.  If you fix the problem
be sure and send me the patch otherwise you will have to wait until I
redesign the data structure.  Debugging large programs on my schools
alpha is rather slow and time consuming due to the high load of the
system and I do not wish to waste my time on it.

-- 
Kevin Atkinson
address@hidden
http://metalab.unc.edu/kevina/