Re: proposed fix for as problem

On Monday, Jul 14, 2003, at 19:11 Europe/Brussels, Jeff Whitaker wrote:

> Since the broken assembler in the Dec2002 Dev Tools update seems only 
> to
> affect g77, I propose to implement this fix:
>
> 1) create an "as" package, which builds an assembler from opendarwin 
> cvs
> (that actually works with g77).  This is installed as %p/bin/odas.
>
> 2) update the g77 package to depend on as, and configure with
> "--with-as=%p/bin/odas"

Seems perfect to me.

Jean-Francois

PS:

> This seems better to me than adding patches that replace "STOP"
> with "CALL EXIT" in all affected fortran codes. Comments?

My suggested patch was a bit more careful than that with the code :
it replaced naked STOP statements by "STOP 999", and put a "CALL EXIT"
only in programs that ended just with 'END'  ...

Still your proposal is of course better



-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft
Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more.
Download & eval WebKing and get a free book.
www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps1