Re: [Rd] a plead to package developers regarding GCC

2006-06-07 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Andy, Are you talking about C or Fortran code here? Fortran has `intrinsics', C does not AFAIK. I think we do pretty strict checking of C code in CRAN packages, and I have not encountered problems with other C compilers (e.g. the Solaris ones). There used to be issues with CRLF line endings,

[Rd] a plead to package developers regarding GCC

2006-06-06 Thread Liaw, Andy
Dear DevelopeRs, I'd like to ask those who develop R packages with compiled code to please try avoiding dependency on GCC (gcc/g77/gfortran/g++) specific features in the code, for the simple reason that there are non-GCC compilers out there that might choke on such features. I found this out back