Message 115887 - Python tracker

Message115887

Author	pitrou
Recipients	pitrou, sable
Date	2010-09-08.17:04:06
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By the way, all traces of 0711-596 on the Web seem to point to IBM compiler errata. Apparently xlc tries to support computed gotos (which is originally a GCC-specific feature) but doesn't do it very well. The support for computed gotos is detected automatically by the configure script; --without-computed-gotos helps override the detection. I would close this issue as a compiler bug, especially given that there's a configure switch to circumvent it.

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By the way, all traces of 0711-596 on the Web seem to point to IBM compiler errata. Apparently xlc tries to support computed gotos (which is originally a GCC-specific feature) but doesn't do it very well.

The support for computed gotos is detected automatically by the configure script; --without-computed-gotos helps override the detection.

I would close this issue as a compiler bug, especially given that there's a configure switch to circumvent it.

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Date	User	Action	Args
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