PLATFORMS Update

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Prof Brian D Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> On 2 Apr 1999, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> 
> > Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
> > 
> > > 
> > > NAME       	Göran Broström
> > > EMAIL      	gb@stat.umu.se
> > > VERSION    	0.63.3
> > > PLATFORM   	sun-sparc-linux
> > > SYSTEM     	Redhat 5.2
> > > CC/FC/MAKE 	egcs/egcs-g77/make
> >                 ^^^^
> > Oops. I thought that one was a "known bad" for egcs<1.1 (RH5.2 ships
> > 1.0.3a). Crashes in qbeta.c, IIRC. Will it complete "make check"?
> 
> Note: sun-sparc, and Peter once told me that has nothing to do
> with the compiler on Intel.

Argh. Saw RedHat, implied Intel... Sorry. 

Yes, the bug is very system-dependent -- doesn't even affect the
windows-i386 egcs compiler (not in that spot anyway) since it doesn't
inline the same routines.

> This makes me say what I thought of earlier: would be it be a good
> idea for Kurt to ask those people who used gcc/egcs to give us a
> version number?  AFAIK egcs is an addon for RH5.2 (ships with, does
> not install by default) so it would be very easy to have a grabbed
> a later rpm for egcs/ecgs-g77 (which are not even on the 1-CD version
> in use here).

Agreed. Optimization levels too?

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