[Python-Dev] test failures...

[Greg Stein]

On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 01:51:14PM -0400, Tim Peters wrote:
> [Greg Stein]
> > Euh... shouldn't we insert some defensive code into longobject.c? Great,
> > Skip knows to disable opt for that file... what about all the
> > other people?
> 
> Don't understand what you want to see.  The compiler in question is both
> broken & old.  At most I'd put a note in one of the readmes saying so.

The compiler Skip quoted was pgcc-2.91.66. The "pgcc" part may have
introduced the problem, but my RedHat 6.2 (i.e. the LATEST) has the
following:

Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66/specs
gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)


Maybe 2.91.66 is "old" but that is the compiler being shipped on RedHat 6.2.

Having said that, I bet the pgcc people messed up the compiler :-). I set
-O9 on my box and recompiled longobject.c. It wouldn't reproduce the problem.

Cheers,
-g

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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/