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+2002-07-25 Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
+
+ * 17481: Etc/MACHINES: from Karl Tomlinson
+ <k.tomlinson@auckland.ac.nz>: the SGI compiler needs to be told
+ to turn off variable length arrays.
+
2002-07-24 Clint Adams <clint@zsh.org>
* 17479: Doc/Zsh/arith.yo: fix typo noticed by Martin Pool.
diff --git a/Etc/MACHINES b/Etc/MACHINES
index 3b62f27e3..07a45c909 100644
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@@ -147,6 +147,11 @@ SGI: IRIX 6.2, 6.3, 6.5
On 6.5.2, zsh malloc routines are reported not to work; also
full optimization (cc -O3 -OPT:Olimit=0) causes problems.
+ If using the SGI compiler, variable length arrays need to
+ be turned off. configure can work this out for itself if it
+ is passed the option --enable-cflags='-LANG:vla=off -O' (combined
+ with other flags if necessary).
+
The zpty module is not currently supported.
Sun: SunOS 4.1.*