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Platform

The tests are run on an OSF1 V5.1 platform.

Compilers

• Compaq C++ V7.1-006 for Compaq Tru64 UNIX V5.1B (Rev. 2650)
  Compiler Driver V7.1-006 (cxx) cxx Driver
• g++ (GCC) 3.4.4

Assembler

Alpha Assembler Version 3.07.11 on Tru64 UNIX V5.1B (Rev. 2650)
Compiler Driver V6.5-207 (dtk) (dtk) cc Driver

Notes

• IEEE conformance has been explicitly requested by adding either -ieee (for cxx) or -mieee (for gcc) to the compiler command line.
• On Tru64, gcc uses a tool called mips-tfile to add the debug symbols to the object file after the system assembler has generated the object file from the assembler source. The maximum length of a debug symbol that mips-tfile can handle is limited to 32768 bytes. When compiling the boost regression tests, gcc sometimes produces debug symbols which exceed this limit, which can be seen by error messages like "mips-tfile, /tmp//ccLKLqGM.s:3787 string too big (39204 bytes)". Therefore debug symbols have been disabled on this platform for gcc.