[ODE] autoconf/automake take 5

[Jens Thiele]

Russ Smith wrote:

>>error:
>>strange bus error while accesing a contact struct (the first time)
>>which is on the stack (the dStack)
>>
> 
> hmmm - the MIPS chip has more severe alignment restrictions than
> the x86. i believe that doubles must be 8-byte aligned. stack
> allocations with ALLOCA16 are 16 byte aligned. but i don't think
> allocations within a joint group are specially aligned,
> so this may be the problem. access to non-aligned contact joint
> doubles could definitely cause the bus error.

yep doubles must be 8-byte aligned (tested it)
and dStack used a 4-byte alignment? (at least no 8-byte alignment)
i used my malloc hack and 8-byte alignment => ode works on irix :-)
thanks for this one !!

> yes i'm working on this right now. obstack.h and obstack.cpp are

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yep


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