Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!qucdn!gilla Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips Subject: Re: f77 compiler bugs Date: Tuesday, 12 Jun 1990 18:18:34 EDT From: "Arnold G. Gill" Message-ID: <90163.181834GILLA@QUCDN.BITNET> References: <90162.010506GILLA@QUCDN.BITNET> <39321@mips.mips.COM> In article <39321@mips.mips.COM>, rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) says: > >In article <90162.010506GILLA@QUCDN.BITNET> GILLA@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (Arnold G. >Gill) writes: >> >> The following source code generates the errors indicated. Our machine >is >>a 120, running RISC(OS) 4.30. Two separate bugs are presented, both having >>something to do with character strings. Note that neither of these bugs was >>apparent in the previous f77 compiler that we had (using RISC(OS) 3.10). > >Both of these bugs are fixed in the new F77 release. > >If you are currently running RISC/os 4.0 through 4.30 and intend to stay at >that OS release for the forseeable future, and you have a software maintenance >agreement, you may get a copy of the 4.0-compatible build, called compilers >release 2.10, by contacting Customer Services through the Customer Response >Center at 1-800-443-MIPS in the USA and Canada. (Elsewhere, call your area >support office.) Be sure to request both FORTRAN and the Base Compilers (C) >tape. We tried that already. Version 2.10 had some serious bugs in the optimizer that forced code to randomly compile to infinite loops. That's why we switched BACK to version 2.00. ------- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Arnold Gill | | | Queen's University at Kingston | If I hadn't wanted it heard, | | BITNET : gilla@qucdn | I wouldn't have said it. | | X-400 : Arnold.Gill@QueensU.CA | | | INTERNET : gilla@qucdn.queensu.ca | | -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-