garvey@cmic.UUCP (Joe Garvey) (03/01/90)
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.
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...
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408-720-6439 (let it ring) 800-824-7814 (inside CA)milburn@me10.lbl.gov (John Milburn) (03/02/90)
In article <249@cmic.UUCP> garvey%cmic@mips.com writes: >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 A version of elm is included with 7.0, so we didn't bother trying to compile the netware. I don't know about Bnews. rn and perl both go fairly smoothly. perl (version 3, patchlevel 8) contains a couple of files (eval.c and toke.c, I think) which give the global optimizer fits (you need about 100 MB of swap and many cpu hours if you REALLY want to optimize) and I compiled those files with +O1. -jem JEMilburn@lbl.gov ...!ucbvax!lbl.gov!JEMilburn
shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni) (03/03/90)
> 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. ----- Shankar Unni E-Mail: Hewlett-Packard California Language Lab. Internet: shankar@hpda.hp.com Phone : (408) 447-5797 UUCP: ...!hplabs!hpda!shankar DISCLAIMER: This response does not represent the official position of, or statement by, the Hewlett-Packard Company. The above data is provided for informational purposes only. It is supplied without warranty of any kind.