At 6:37 pm +0000 17/11/98, Phillip Helbig wrote:
>My impression would be that the solaris compiler is not worth messing
>with. This has been my experience and SUN people have admitted publicly
>that it is not really to be taken seriously. So what's the point in
>bending over backward to make your stuff work with it?
>
>Supposedly, the next version (now downloadable in beta test, I believe)
>is much better. Maybe you should try it with that?
Well, it's true it fixed some problems we'd been having but the compiler
crashed on 3 separate errors on relatively simple code within my first 10
mins of testing -- maybe I was unlucky, but interestingly it was the most
f77 like of the code I had. The web reference is
http://access1.sun.com/workshop5.0ea/.
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