[Rd] Compilers on Solaris: beware!

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

Yes, of course!

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Albert Chin wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 06:13:00PM +0000, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:
> > Also gcc 3.2.2 has a fatal optimization bug on Solaris, and code generated 
> > with -O2 causes R's graphics devices to crash (the problem being the 
> > DevDesc* pointer at the end of the arg sequence is not passed correctly).
> > Avoiding optimization seems a partial cure, and I've reverted to gcc 3.2.
> 
> Have you filed a PR with the GCC developers about this
> (http://gcc.gnu.org)?

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