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| author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2000-09-29 17:45:05 (GMT) |
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| committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2000-09-29 17:45:05 (GMT) |
| commit | 0b5fb2bfc84f58289da73b5c8a41a1279f9bf7bd (patch) | |
| tree | 8aefb18f65bfce19a10108bb36b442eb8c2cab09 | |
| parent | ffe58ca6ef2ec88afd2a345fa3100b34ad12737e (diff) | |
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Add a paragraph about an optimization bug in SGI compilers which affects
complex objects, and explain how to build so that Objects/complexobject.c
is compiled without optimization.
Closing SourceForge bug #110695 as "Won't Fix".
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@@ -374,6 +374,13 @@ SGI: SGI's standard "make" utility (/bin/make or /usr/bin/make) you set the first line of the Makefile to #!/usr/sbin/smake smake will be invoked by make (likewise for GNU make). + There is a bug in the SGI compiler's optimization that causes a + bus error in PyComplex_ImagAsDouble(); this has been reported to + be triggered when importing Numeric Python and may be caused at + other times. The work-around is to build Python, delete the + Objects/complexobject.o file, and then recompile without + optimization (use "make OPT="). + OS/2: If you are running Warp3 or Warp4 and have IBM's VisualAge C/C++ compiler installed, just change into the pc\os2vacpp directory and type NMAKE. Threading and sockets are supported by default |