Re: -fPIC joy, lexcmp woes.

[Karim BELABAS <Karim.Belabas@math.u-psud.fr>]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Phil Carmody wrote:
> Also, while playing around locally, I noticed this:
> <<<
> (03:07) gp > lex([1,3,5],[1,3])
> -1
> (03:11) gp > lex([1,3],[1,3,5])
> -1
> >>>
>
> !?!? Surely that can't be right?
> (that's CVS nightly build on the Alpha).

The first one is wrong, but I can't reproduce this on the alpha I have
access to. (I correctly get 1 for the first test above.)

Does it still occur now that Bill has applied his patch (to cater for 'int'
return types) ? If so, can you try an debug this ? The lex routine is rather
straightforward...

Thanks,

    Karim.
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