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+Should work under OSF/1 and Linux.  Currently no VMS or NT support, though
+the latter shouldn't be hard.
+
+Incremental gc not yet supported under Linux because signal handler
+for SIGSEGV can't get a hold of fault address.  Dynamic library support
+is also missing from Linux/alpha, probably for no good reason.
+
+Currently there is no thread support in the standard distribution.  There
+exists a separate port to DEC Unix pthreads.  It should be possible to
+port the X86 Linux threads support to Alpha without much trouble.
+
+If you get asssembler errors, be sure to read the first few lines of the
+Makefile.
+
+From Philippe Queinnec:
+
+System: DEC/Alpha OSF1 v3.2, vendor cc
+Problem: can't link if libgc has been compiled with "cc -std1".
+         It works if the library has been compiled with either gcc or "cc"
+         alone. The problem is because the variable "end" is not defined if
+         compiling in std1 mode (see man ld).
+Proposed fix: none. Don't use cc -std1 !