From bug-request at octave dot org Thu Jan 12 11:54:02 2006
Subject: Compiling octave with Intel C++/Fortran compilers on Linux
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Tetsuji \"Maverick\" Rai" <maverick31337 at gmail dot com>
Cc: bug at octave dot org
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:53:53 -0500

On 12-Jan-2006, "Tetsuji \"Maverick\" Rai" wrote:

| I've successfully compiled octave with Intel C++/Fortran compiler on
| Gentoo Linux on P4 to make it faster and probably more accurate (because
| it's more accurate than gcc-3.4.4 with proper options.)  But I needed a
| tweak, so I write diff here.
| 
| It's in src/oct-stream.cc, and the diff for 2.1.72 is
| 
| *** ../../octave-2.1.72/src/oct-stream.cc       Sat Nov 12 04:48:27 2005
| - ---- ./oct-stream.cc     Thu Jan 12 05:47:20 2006
| ***************
| *** 1143,1148 ****
| - ---- 1143,1149 ----
|   octave_scan (std::istream&, const scanf_format_elt&, float*);
|   #endif
| 
| + #if !defined(__INTEL_COMPILER) // TMR
|   template <>
|   std::istream&
|   octave_scan (std::istream& is, const scanf_format_elt& fmt, double*
| valptr)
| ***************
| *** 1317,1323 ****
| 
|     return is;
|   }
| !
|   template std::istream&
|   octave_scan (std::istream&, const scanf_format_elt&, double*);
| 
| - ---- 1318,1324 ----
| 
|     return is;
|   }
| ! #endif //TMR
|   template std::istream&
|   octave_scan (std::istream&, const scanf_format_elt&, double*);

You have not reported what problem this patch solves.  Precisely what
error message or problem do you see without the patch?  Perhaps there
is a better fix that would not require the ifdef.

jwe



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