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| Subject: | RE: calc and calcout records in EPICS 3.14.6 |
| From: | "Mark Rivers" <[email protected]> |
| To: | "Ralph Lange" <[email protected]>, "Andrew Johnson" <[email protected]> |
| Cc: | "EPICS Tech-Talk" <[email protected]> |
| Date: | Wed, 17 Nov 2004 06:51:53 -0600 |
Andrew and Ralph, We've been using the SNS versions of PPC and 68K compilers without being aware of the bugs that Andrew mentioned. Are these documented somewhere on the Web? Thanks, Mark > > There are also problems with a 68K C++ compiler built from these > sources; > > in that case the issue is related to passing bool variables as > arguments > > to functions or member functions - again I haven't chased the detail. > > Plus a problem with NULL pointers being treated wrong in expressions > (after setting a pointer to NULL, comparing it to NULL in an expression > would yield a FALSE). > > Afaik this problem is appeared only in the 68k version of the original > Tornado 2.0.2 compiler and was fixed with a later patch. Anyway: > compilers built from the sources available at SNS are not showing this > bug. (That's why we rebuilt even our HP-UX based compiler from the SNS > sources.)