GPC for the DEC Alpha_(re)

Sat, 15 Mar 1997 21:42:04 +0100 (MET)

According to JanJaap van der Heijden:
> I don't know much about the Alpha and GPC related bugs, but I did some work
> to build Redhat RPM's for GPC.

RPM?  What's that?

> 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.

Are these patches freely available?  If so, we should point to them in the
GPC documentation and README files.  And in the FAQ - even more important.

> 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?

The Alpha I have access to does not run Linux.  Perhaps somebody else has
a Linux/Alpha system?

And I am still interested in example programs which trigger those
Alpha-with-high-optimization-specific errors, you know.

    Peter

  Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer
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