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Re: make check fails when optimizing with gcc-2.96-88
- To: David Necas (Yeti) <yeti at physics dot muni dot cz>
- Subject: Re: make check fails when optimizing with gcc-2.96-88
- From: Brian Gough <bjg at network-theory dot co dot uk>
- Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 18:56:00 +0100 (BST)
- Cc: gsl-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <20010808160545.A1979@physics.muni.cz>
David Necas (Yeti) writes:
> I have troubles compiling gsl-0.9 with RH's
> gcc-2.96-88. When I compile it with CFLAGS=,
> `make check' passes, however, CFLAGS=-O makes a
> test to fail and CFLAGS=-O2 makes whole hundreds
> of tests to fail.
>
Thanks for the bug reports. As you guessed the -O2 problem is due to
an error in gcc-2.96. It works ok with gcc-3.0.
The other case is due to the error estimate being too small -- we'll
fix this for the next release.
regards
Brian Gough