Compiler still buggy
I tried today to compile Tcl on Alpha. While Tcl does have numerous 64-bit
cleanliness issues, compiling with -O2 causes the irc client zircon, which I
maintain, to report "network is unreachable" whenever connecting to any
server. Compiling with -O0 makes Zircon mostly work on Alpha. Zircon is
pure Tcl code, BTW.
This indicates to me that we still have insidious compiler bugs. And I had
hoped that I could forever abolish nasty hacks to use -O0 instead of -O2.
John
(The tcl I tried compiling was 8.0.4-2 from Incoming. I have not uploaded
this version, pending installation of it into the archive proper. I had the
same problem on earlier Tcl versions.)
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