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Subject: Re: Crafty19.0 also broken for OSX using gcc2.95

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:38:50 10/08/02

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On October 08, 2002 at 05:55:21, Andreas Guettinger wrote:

>On October 07, 2002 at 21:40:35, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On October 07, 2002 at 06:53:01, Andreas Guettinger wrote:
>>
>>>The old gcc2.95 is still fully available under Jaguar as /usr/bin/gcc2
>>
>>Then the compiler is simply broken, period.  I use 2.95.2 myself, for Intel, and
>>it works
>>just fine.  But not for the Sparc.  And apparently not for the G-series
>>either...
>>
>>
>
>Well, well. It was not broken for Crafyt18.15 on the G-series. :)
>I could even compile 18.15 with -DCOMPACT_ATTACKS -DUSE_ATTACK_FUNCTIONS -DFAST
>on the G4 series with both gcc2.95 and gcc3.1...
>
>Not to mention that I compiled the whole Gnome distribution and a lot of unix
>math and bioinf tools with gcc2.95 and gcc3.1 on my G4 and never encountered any
>problems...
>
>I stick to Crafty 18.15 for now...
>
>Andreas


I'll bet it _is_ broken, but it just doesn't crash.  Diff the changes to the
_engine_ code.
Nothing dramatic or significant in terms of lines of code...  Which means
something
else is bad wrong to make it crash...





>
>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>gcc2 -v
>>>Reading specs from /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/2.95.2/specs
>>>Apple Computer, Inc. version gcc-937.2, based on gcc version 2.95.2 19991024
>>>(release)
>>>
>>>But I get the same kind of errors when running Crafty19.0 under OSX.
>>>
>>>bad move from hash table, ply=110*  1. ... d5
>>>bad move from hash table, ply=11
>>>bad move from hash table, ply=9
>>>bad move from hash table, ply=9
>>>bad move from hash table, ply=9
>>>
>>>etc.
>>>
>>>The problem disappears when Crafty19.0 was compiled without option
>>>-DCOMPACT_ATTACKS.
>>>Did anyone test Crafty19.0 on a alpha, yet?
>>>
>>>regards
>>>Andreas



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