Re: Compiler still buggy
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, John Goerzen wrote:
> I tried today to compile Tcl on Alpha. While Tcl does have numerous 64-bit
> cleanliness issues, compiling with -O2 causes the irc client zircon, which I
> maintain, to report "network is unreachable" whenever connecting to any
> server. Compiling with -O0 makes Zircon mostly work on Alpha. Zircon is
> pure Tcl code, BTW.
>
> This indicates to me that we still have insidious compiler bugs. And I had
> hoped that I could forever abolish nasty hacks to use -O0 instead of -O2.
Yep, it's still there :-( It's a known problem at this point, but it
wouldn't hurt to drop an email to the egcs list (hint hint..hehehe). I'm
still working on a more finalised compiler for us and am testing a new
build and patchset today, fyi.
C
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