Re: Showstopper in g77 in prerelease on Linux-Alpha

[Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>]

Martin Kahlert wrote:

> Quoting craig@jcb-sc.com (craig@jcb-sc.com):

> > Are you by any chance using Redhat Linux 6.0, or something equivalent?
> I use Debian-2.1.

> > Reason I ask is, there have already been reports that the libm.a routine
> > that implements NINT is broken.
> Using -O2 instead of -O1 in compiling my prog shouldn't break libm.a

> I think, Jeff already found a problem in egcs.

Yep - I was on the brink on firing off the question why we didn't just
open code NINT instead of calling a library function, when Jeff showed
that we already did (Perhaps Craig forgot ...)

> Thanks for all, who tried to help in the above mentioned thread, too.
> (But i hope, we are on topic again, and i won't have to pay the 200$/hour :-) )

That's only for advice on numerical analysis (like quoting passages from
"Numerical Recipes" :-).  Work on and help with the compiler is gratis -
it's a side effect of the other things I do.

Cheers,

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