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Subject: Re: Crafty's egtb.cpp - Official GCC broken?

Author: Gregor Overney

Date: 22:05:41 12/19/00

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On December 20, 2000 at 00:10:05, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On December 19, 2000 at 19:37:02, Gregor Overney wrote:
>
>>As of today, gcc 2.95.2 is the official version of GCC.
>>
>>When using this version on an UltraSPARC running Solaris 8 (64-bit kernel), I am
>>not able to compile egtb.cpp. However, using egcs-2.91.57 on a NT system and
>>VC++ 6.0 SP4, I can compile egtb.cpp. With egcs-2.91.57, I get around 50
>>warnings that a decimal integer is too large and therefore assumed to be
>>unsigned. No big deal.
>>
>>Did someone use gcc 2.95.2 and was able to compile egtb.cpp as distributed with
>>Crafty 17.14?
>>
>>BTW, if you want to compile it with VC++ 6.0 SP4 you need to add /Zm200 to
>>increase the maximum memory allocated by the compiler. Remember, this is not
>>part of the makefile.nt as provided with Crafty 17.14.
>>
>>
>>Gregor
>
>I am using 2.95.2 on my linux box.  I haven't tried building it for the
>SPARC and then compiling there however, as when I compile on the sparcs, I
>use the Sun C compiler which is better.

Since it works on a Linux box, I assume it's a SPARC specific problem with
2.95.2. I got my version from sunfreeware.com which usually has very good
implementations of GNU compilers and tools.

Yes, the SUN C compiler is better. But for non-University folks it's $$$.

Gregor





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