[daip] Re: AIPS & gcc v3

[Eric Greisen]

Jeff Uphoff writes:
 > So, Orion has gotten interested in gcc v3's flakiness (AIPS seems a
 > canary in a coal mine), and I seem to be walking point for the effort.
 > (Heck, it might earn me an all-expenses-paid trip to Socorro!)
 > 
 > Anywho, we have a gcc engineer at Red Hat interested in this as well.
 > One thing he's asked is if AIPS has been tried under gcc v3.4.x yet.
 > Has it?

I have just run on 3.4.2 which will now be the compiler for my system.
It seems to work fine - gets all the way through Y2K and will apply
calibration and bandpass to data and plot them.  The 3.3.3 distributed
with Enterprise RedHat cannot make these 2 statements.

Eric Greisen