[comp.sys.apollo] Ftn 10.8.p patch compiler no good

system@aurum.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson)) (06/01/91)

We ordered the ftn 10.8.m(208) and 10.8.p(200) patch compilers from the
Hotline; something actually got fixed, but the 10.8.p (for
DN10000s) has still got severe problems with compiling simple
programs with -O (nested DO/IF is almost guaranteed to mess up it
seems). The 10.8.m (version 208) seems OK (as did the official 10.8.m
compiler) on the same test cases.

Once again, I have removed the 10.8.p(patch) compiler from our DN10000 as
it produces incorrect results (although this time it does compile
our "compiler-breaker" code correctly). I would like to have a
functioning 10.8.p compiler, since many of the 10.7.p bugs have been
corrected (especially the COMPLEX arithmetic ones; as I said before,
anyone who uses COMPLEX data type with ftn 10.7.p is almost certainly
getting wrong results with "-O", may be OK with "-g").
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Mike Peterson, System Administrator, U/Toronto Department of Chemistry
E-mail: system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
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