Re: g77 & f2c serious problems

1996-11-11 Thread Arrigo Triulzi
David Gaudine scripsit: |I should add that, in the unlikely event that -fno_automatic solves |your problem, you should send the bug report to the developers of your |source code. -fno_automatic solves a problem that should not come up |with "correct" code. Ahem, it didn't work. So far no solution

Re: g77 & f2c serious problems

1996-11-11 Thread Arrigo Triulzi
Douglas Bates scripsit: |Are the differences in floating point results relative to other |machines based on Intel processors? Remember that the floating point |registers on Intel processors use an 80 bit IEEE extended |representation. Other architectures such as SPARC use the 64 bit IEEE |represe

Re: g77 & f2c serious problems

1996-11-07 Thread David Gaudine
On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Arrigo Triulzi wrote: > I would greatly appreciate any information or patches. A bug > report is in the process of being prepared for both the g77 developers > and the f2c developers. Incidentally, should I send a bug report to > the Debian developers too? I should add

Re: g77 & f2c serious problems

1996-11-07 Thread David Gaudine
On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Arrigo Triulzi wrote: > people here are having very serious problems with both g77 and > f2c: the numbers which come out at the end are different from any > other architecture we can lay our hands on, i.e. they have declared > the boxes unfit for numerical calculations.

Re: g77 & f2c serious problems

1996-11-07 Thread Alex Romosan
which version of f2c are you using? the last debian version 960717-0 is kind of old, and there is at least one bug in the 960717-0 version which makes ishft fail miserably when dealing with signed integers. this kind of messed up our random number generators big time. the f2c maintainer was very re

g77 & f2c serious problems

1996-11-07 Thread Arrigo Triulzi
Hello all, people here are having very serious problems with both g77 and f2c: the numbers which come out at the end are different from any other architecture we can lay our hands on, i.e. they have declared the boxes unfit for numerical calculations. This is a pretty major proble