Re: Failing of test 47: semantics.at:129 on HP-UX 10.20

[Peter Ohlerich]

Akim Demaille wrote:
> ...
> I'm not looking for a means to detect it by its ID, rather, I'm just
> looking for it name for documentation purposes.  Rest assured, it's
> extremely easy to detect this kind of failure.
> 
> As a matter of fact, it's frightening to see Autoconf can generate
> tests that make no step.  I really thought this area was robust to
> such failures.

It is the standard development c-compiler from HP. It's not that tiny
thing called c89 which is in every standard OS-distribution. I don't 
know how to name it. But it is a really nasty compiler which makes a 
lot of trouble (maybe the compiler is ok, but the OS isn't).

Peter.

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