[Rd] Compilers on Solaris: beware!

Albert Chin R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch
Wed Feb 12 16:53:03 2003


On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 06:13:00PM +0000, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:
> Also gcc 3.2.2 has a fatal optimization bug on Solaris, and code generated 
> with -O2 causes R's graphics devices to crash (the problem being the 
> DevDesc* pointer at the end of the arg sequence is not passed correctly).
> Avoiding optimization seems a partial cure, and I've reverted to gcc 3.2.

Have you filed a PR with the GCC developers about this
(http://gcc.gnu.org)?

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albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)