Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!alberta!ncc!lyndon
From: lyndon@ncc.Nexus.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Help Needed with 2.11 Bug in ifuncs.c
Message-ID: <10324@ncc.Nexus.CA>
Date: 8 Jul 88 20:44:45 GMT
References: <469@nitrex.UUCP>
Reply-To: lyndon@ncc.nexus.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
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Organization: Nexus Computing Inc.
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In article <469@nitrex.UUCP> rbl@nitrex.UUCP ( Dr. Robin Lake ) writes:
 
>We are trying to install 2.11 news.  After localizing, make produces the
>following error while compiling ifuncs.c :
>ifuncs.c line 869
 
>Loop detected.  Simplify.
 
>Our machine is a Motorola 6600, nee Convergent Technologies Mega-Frame, based
>on a 68010 and the "CTIX" flavor of UNIX.

It's not hard to blow up the old CTIX 3.20 (or earlier) C compilers.

In most cases, compiling without -O will cure the problem.

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