From rossini@biostat.washington.edu  Mon Oct 26 04:38:55 1998
From: rossini@biostat.washington.edu (A.J. Rossini)
Date: 25 Oct 1998 20:38:55 -0800
Subject: EGCS optimizer bug?
In-Reply-To: Peter Dalgaard BSA's message of "25 Oct 1998 23:21:26 +0100"
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Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk> writes:

> The current development version dies in qbeta() when compiled with
> egcs -O, egcs 1.0.2 and glibc 2.0.7 (RedHat versions). Since this also
> kill the F and t distributions, it doesn't exactly do wonders for R's
> usefulness...
> 
> Anyone else seeing this or has my setup just gone out of whack? It
> does look pretty much like a clear compiler bug when inlining math
> functions (storing temporaries offset from %ebx, but no setting of
> %ebx register to anything useful...)

At what optimization?  I've had various problems with older versions
of EGCS (and have gone back to gcc 2.7.2 except when I must have
reasonable c++ features)

best,
-tony

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EGCS optimizer bug?
A.J. Rossini