GPC for the DEC Alpha_(re)

Fri, 14 Mar 1997 23:32:54 +0100

At 11:19 PM 3/14/97 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi!
>
>As you know perhaps from the GPC documentation, there are some known bugs
>with optimization on the DEC Alpha.  Up to now I was not able to hunt
>them, but it seems like that I will get access to an Alpha workstation
>till 1. November.
>
>Since I only know that these bugs exist but I don't have a single example
>program, I would be glad if the DEC Alpha users among you could send me
>their example programs which fail with high optimization levels.
>

I don't know much about the Alpha and GPC related bugs, but I did some work
to build Redhat RPM's for GPC. As you may know, Redhat Linux is available
for iX86, sparc and alpha. The GCC sources from redhat come with a number of
patches to build on the alpha. Anybody who wants to build GPC for
Linux/alpha will have to apply these, probably. Normally, I would not have
come up with this untill it matured a bit, but since the topic of Alphas has
come up: is there anybody out there running a Redhat Linux/Alpha machine who
would want to test these RPM's on it?

JanJaap
--
"Nothing shocks me, I'm a scientist", Indiana Jones

JanJaap van der Heijden (J.J.vanderHeijden@student.utwente.nl)