At 11:19 PM 3/14/97 +0100, you wrote:

Hi!

As you know perhaps from the GPC documentation, there are some known bugs with optimization on the DEC Alpha. Up to now I was not able to hunt them, but it seems like that I will get access to an Alpha workstation till 1. November.

Since I only know that these bugs exist but I don't have a single example program, I would be glad if the DEC Alpha users among you could send me their example programs which fail with high optimization levels.

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

JanJaap -- "Nothing shocks me, I'm a scientist", Indiana Jones