[daip] Re: new problem with AIPS task

Eric Greisen egreisen at cv3.cv.nrao.edu
Tue Oct 30 10:24:13 EST 2001


computer support writes:
 > One user now reports that the task PBCOR suddenly no longer works correctly
 > (although I can't think of anything that has changed in our AIPS installation
 > that would affect that).  Basically, it says that it completed successfully,
 > but the data it writes are identical to the input, no matter what parameters
 > are chosen.  This has been seen on different user areas by different users on
 > different data sets.
 > 
 > Do you have any idea what might be causing that?  (Another subtle compilation
 > optimization problem maybe?  We did change our compilers since it last worked.)
 > The PBCOR patch (<ftp://aips.nrao.edu/pub/aips/31DEC00/patches.html#004>) was
 > applied, so it's not that.  Maybe you've seen that happen before...
 > 

It does sound just like the bug the patch was designed to fix.  So are
you sure?

What compiler are you using - and remind me what aips version and architecture?

Eric



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