-fPIC joy, lexcmp woes.

[Phil Carmody <thefatphil@yahoo.co.uk>]

After much confusion, it appears that without the patch it alwas fails to
build, and with the patch it builds cleanly, so -fPIC was the cure. However...


*** ../src/test/64/objets       Tue Jun 24 13:42:05 2003
--- gp.out      Tue Dec  9 19:35:45 2003
***************
*** 54,60 ****
  ? imag(2+3*I)
  3
  ? lex([1,3],[1,3,5])
! -1
  ? max(2,3)
  3
  ? min(2,3)
--- 54,60 ----
  ? imag(2+3*I)
  3
  ? lex([1,3],[1,3,5])
! 4294967295
  ? max(2,3)
  3
  ? min(2,3)
***************


I looked at basemath/gen2.c, however, I found myself a tad confused.


There's no way (unless the compiler's completely b0rked) that 0xffffffff can be
returned from any of the lexcmp functions. So maybe it's in the client of that
function that the error occurs. Alas without getting interactive access to the
machine, I can't muck around and find out.

Maybe someone else had access to an Athlon64/gcc/linux combo and can try to
reproduce it?


Also, while playing around locally, I noticed this:
<<<
(03:07) gp > lex([1,3,5],[1,3])
-1
(03:11) gp > lex([1,3],[1,3,5])
-1
>>>

!?!? Surely that can't be right?
(that's CVS nightly build on the Alpha).


Phil

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