According to JanJaap van der Heijden:

I don't know much about the Alpha and GPC related bugs, but I did some work to build Redhat RPM's for GPC.

RPM? What's that?

As you may know, Redhat Linux is available for iX86, sparc and alpha. The GCC sources from redhat come with a number of patches to build on the alpha. Anybody who wants to build GPC for Linux/alpha will have to apply these, probably.

Are these patches freely available? If so, we should point to them in the GPC documentation and README files. And in the FAQ - even more important.

Normally, I would not have come up with this untill it matured a bit, but since the topic of Alphas has come up: is there anybody out there running a Redhat Linux/Alpha machine who would want to test these RPM's on it?

The Alpha I have access to does not run Linux. Perhaps somebody else has a Linux/Alpha system?

And I am still interested in example programs which trigger those Alpha-with-high-optimization-specific errors, you know.

Peter

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