Re: Itanium bugs

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 10:22:08AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 06:29:25PM -0400, Igor Schein wrote:
> > There're 2 cases of failed benches on Linux/ia64:
> > \\ optimized binary
> > 
> > ? setrand(1);bnfclassunit(x^4+24*x^2+585*x+1791,,[0.1,0.1])
> >   ***   bug in GP (Segmentation Fault), please report
> 
> We should probably fix the first problem before investigate the scond one.
No, it is unrelated. In fact what compiler do you use ?
It looks like a bug in gcc-2.96. I have just tested gcc-3.2 and every work fine.

The Debian package for PARI/GP 2.1.4 explicitly build with gcc-3.0 to avoid
bugs in gcc-2.96 on ia64.

Cheers
Bill.