Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!spool2.mu.edu!uunet!panews.awdpa.ibm.com!bullhead!brunner From: brunner@bullhead.uucp Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: HC 2 Message-ID: <1991Jan4.000714.6440@panews> Date: 4 Jan 91 00:07:14 GMT References: <1990Dec19.140919.4497@athena.mit.edu> Sender: news@panews (news id) Reply-To: brunner@ibmsupt.UUCP () Organization: IBM AWD Palo Alto Lines: 18 The current version of the Metaware High C compiler (hc) is 2.1y. During the last months of the past year I tested two later versions of the compiler (2.1z and 2.1A). Unfortunately, both of these contained a bug I consider "fatal" a kernel compiled with either of the post-y versions would crash at the first pass through tcp_input.c, when calls to the protocol control block manipulation routines in_pcbconnect() and in_pcblookup() were made. At the year's end the support contract for the C compiler for IBM/4.3 was not renewed, nor were the contracts for the Pascal or FORTRAN compilers, so we are stuck with what we have. Note that gcc 1.37 is available from several sites on the internet, and that 1.38 has been announced and the RT is among the supported platforms. #include Eric Brunner, Consultant, IBM AWD Palo Alto (415) 855-4486 inet: brunner@monet.berkeley.edu uucp: uunet!ibmsupt!brunner trying to understand multiprocessing is like having bees live inside your head.