Bug 21376
| Summary: | Severe fortran optimization error | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Alfredo Ferrari <alfredo.maria.ferrari> |
| Component: | gcc | Assignee: | Jakub Jelinek <jakub> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | ||
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2000-11-28 13:42:20 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Thanks for reporting this, I've fixed this in http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2000-11/msg01594.html and am now waiting for feedback from other gcc developers before I put it into RH rpms. If you have any other issues, please report them as well. Thanks. Fixed in 2.96-65 and above. |
The g77 compiler shipped with RH7 is badly broken and almost unusable. The following bug reported on the gcc-bugs list originally by Martin Kahlert as a bug of the last snapshot is actually there in all snapshots I tried after the gcc-2.95.2 release and in particular in the "gcc-2.96" shipped with RedHat. It is practically impossible to compile correctly a medium/large fortran code on RH7 because of this. I work at CERN and our MonteCarlo code got *AT LEAST* seven miscompiled routines after a quick check (by the way all our codes dump core within a minute because of this). Two of these bugs are related to the example reported below, I quit to investigate the others since until this one is fixed there is no point in wasting further time (hopefully they are still the same problem). The bug has been reported to gcc-bugs as fortran/893 by somebody else. If it can be of any help, gcc-g77-2.95.2 compiles correctly the example, proving how crazy RedHat was in sending out an official release with a very poor and unchecked snapshot as compiler. At present no work of fortran based scientific computation can be performed with RH7. The bugs disappear switching off all optimizations but the CPU penalties are of course unacceptable. Due to the severity of the problem(s) perhaps it would be wise to warn thru the lists all fortran users and maybe provide an "ad hoc" solution with an older compiler set for fortran (gcc-2.95.2 based?) built for RH7 while waiting for a fix. PROGRAM BUG REAL*8 VALUE(3), TOLD, BK DATA VALUE /0D0, 1D0, 2D0/ DATA TOLD /0D0/ DO I=1, 3 BK = VALUE(I) IF(BK .GT. TOLD) GOTO 10 ENDDO WRITE(*,*) 'Error: BK = ', BK STOP 10 CONTINUE WRITE(*,*) 'No Error: BK = ', BK END g77 -O -o bug bug.f ./bug Error: BK = 1. Alfredo Ferrari || Tel.: +41.22.767.6119 C.E.R.N. || Fax.: +41.22.767.7555 European Laboratory for Particle Physics|| SL Division / EET Project || e-mail: 1211 Geneva 23 || Alfredo.Ferrari Switzerland