core dump on 0.64.2 SPARC/Solaris 2.6 in eigen (PR#223)

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On 10 Jul 1999, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:

> Thomas Lumley <thomas@biostat.washington.edu> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 9 Jul 1999 bates@stat.wisc.edu wrote:
> > 
> > > ..
> > > R is now configured for sparc-sun-solaris2.6
> > > 
> > >   Source directory:         .
> > >   Installation directory:   /unsup/R-0.64.2
> > >   C compiler:               gcc -g -O2
> > >   FORTRAN compiler:         g77 -O2
> > >   Gnome support:            no
> > > 
> > > $ gcc --version
> > > egcs-2.91.66
> > > $ g77 --version
> > > GNU Fortran 0.5.24-19981002
> > 
> > I don't have this problem under Solaris 2.7 using gcc and Sun Workshop f77
> > 
> 
> This is very likely the same trouble that I just spent some time
> analyzing with Vin Everett on Sparc Linux (RedHat 6.0). We traced it
> to something that looks suspiciously like a compiler error. I actually
> considered asking around if anyone used same egcs version on Solaris,
> but though "nah, probably not"....

I do (see PLATFORMS) but unfortunately did my pre-tests of 0.64.2
at home, using egcs 1.1. That works fine, so I suspect a compiler bug.

Brian

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