jpontinen@cc.helsinki.fi (10/27/90)
I have another problem with Ultrix 4.0 and Fortran V2.1 (also with 2.0). Some programs, fortunately benchmarks, compiled with Fortran 2 run forever. There are at least 2 or 3 such programs in the benchmark suite. Under Ultrix 3.1 and Fortran V1 there were no problems, Fortran version of whetstone ran in about 7 seconds on DECstation 5000. The Ultrix V3 & Fortran V1 compiled version of a.out ran well under V4.0 (about 7 seconds). Well, let's test the new compiler with benchmarks to see if it's better, thinks me and gets a bunch of forever running programs. Fortunately the benchmarks are the only bad programs. But obviously there are bugs somewhere... Local Digital Ultrix specialist has been aware of this now over a month. Why doesn't she call me? Jukka Pontinen Finnish Forest Research Institute