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From: shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HPUX 7.0 and net sources
Message-ID: <1340104@hpclscu.HP.COM>
Date: 2 Mar 90 20:57:16 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab
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> I'm curious - has any tried recompiling the Bnews, elm, rn, perl, etc with
> HPUX 7.0's ANSI C-compiler. Any problems that you had because it's an
> ANSI C compiler? Yes, I've seen postings the you can only do +O1 optimization
> still. Maybe the next release will see the optimizer truly working.

Only the series 800 has an ANSI C compiler for 7.0, and even that has to be
selected by a compile-time switch (-Aa). By default, it continues to
compile in K&R mode.

The optimization problems were in the series 300 compiler, whose optimizer
has been vastly improved for 7.0. You should be giving -O a try.

> 
> Does the factory try compiling netware? I know a bunch of Bnews problems
> went away when I recompiled with +O1 instead of -O (under HPUX 6.5). It
> seems like major pieces of netware (like I mentioned above) do a good job of
> breaking compilers... and then there's gnu...
> 

Yes, the factory *does* compile netware these days, especially Gnu stuff.
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