Re: [Bug-gsl] about gsl_complex_poly_complex_eval

[Steven Vancoillie]

On Monday 22 September 2008 10:33:08 Lasse Kliemann wrote:
> * Message by -Liam Healy- from Sun 2008-09-21:
> > A good data point; I had a colleague try this test on a Mac with gcc
> > 4.0.x, and there was no problem getting through the tests.  So it's
> > clear the problem was introduced after gcc 4.1.
> > 
> > Meanwhile, I have tried recompiling on the same computer that
> > originally gave me the problem with version
> > gcc (Debian 4.3.1-9) 4.3.1
> > but this time with -O0:
> > 
> > make clean
> > configure CFLAGS=-O0
> > make
> > make check
> > 
> > and I get through all the tests with no problems.  So it looks like
> > there's a problem with the optimizer in gcc 4.3.
> 
> I tested with 4.3.1 today, _with_ optimizer, and the test suite 
> passed. To me it looks like the problem was introduced between 
> 4.3.1 and 4.3.2. I have to admit that this gcc 4.3.1 was itself 
> compiled with a little patch applied to fix some compilation 
> problems with glibc, so it's not a vanilla gcc. I can provide 
> details on this if required.
> 
> 

I use gcc 4.3.1 (Debian Lenny 4.3.1-2) and all tests passed, both with -O2 and 
-O3