[6804] in Athena Bugs
hc2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sat Jan 5 02:02:45 1991
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 91 01:54:38 EST
From: John Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
hc2 is no longer supported and IBM considers versions later than 2.1y
unreliable, so 2.1y is the final release. I'll be getting hc 2.1A, but I
don't expect we'll want to make it the default.
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Article 2056 (0 more + 1 Marked to return) in comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt:
From: brunner@bullhead.uucp
Subject: Re: HC 2
Date: 4 Jan 91 00:07:14 GMT
Reply-To: brunner@ibmsupt.UUCP ()
Organization: IBM AWD Palo Alto
The current version of the Metaware High C compiler (hc) is 2.1y. During the
last months of the past year I tested two later versions of the compiler (2.1z
and 2.1A). Unfortunately, both of these contained a bug I consider "fatal"
a kernel compiled with either of the post-y versions would crash at the
first pass through tcp_input.c, when calls to the protocol control block
manipulation routines in_pcbconnect() and in_pcblookup() were made.
At the year's end the support contract for the C compiler for IBM/4.3 was
not renewed, nor were the contracts for the Pascal or FORTRAN compilers,
so we are stuck with what we have. Note that gcc 1.37 is available from
several sites on the internet, and that 1.38 has been announced and the
RT is among the supported platforms.
#include <std/disclaimer.h>
Eric Brunner, Consultant, IBM AWD Palo Alto (415) 855-4486
inet: brunner@monet.berkeley.edu uucp: uunet!ibmsupt!brunner
trying to understand multiprocessing is like having bees live inside your head.
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