* tlaro...@polynum.com (tlaro...@polynum.com) wrote:
> While verifying that I have the same result under Plan9 than under some
> Unix (NetBSD), it happens that METAFONT compiles 110 of the 125 fontes,
> but hence fails on some (and it should not) with something that smells
> like a round off by one error on negative integer division. There is no
> problem with TeX, but TeX doesn't do the same things.
This might not be related to your problem, but during the recent
discussion of Plan 9's future /sys/src/cmd/cc/c99 was mentioned.
Reference 25 (in section "Not done") at least seems to be a good
candidate for a test case between Plan 9 and NetBSD compilers.
Good luck,
Martin
