The HP ANSI C Compiler
So you've bought your HP-UX system and suddenly find nothing will build
from our archive ! Well, it turns out that HP have "unbundled" the ANSI C
compiler from the standard ("Instant Ignition") system and you have to pay
extra for it - you order the ANSI C Developer's Toolkit to get it and you
will receive a codeword for it to unlock it from the Application CD-ROMs.
HP-UX 10.X filesets required for the HP ANSI C compiler
Typing "/usr/sbin/swlist" in HP-UX 10.X should reveal something like this in
your "Bundle(s)" section:
B3898AA_APZ B.10.20.02 HP C/ANSI C Developer's Bundle for HP-UX 10.20 (S700)
You can further check your installation by typing this:
$ what /opt/ansic/bin/cc
/opt/ansic/bin/cc:
LINT A.10.32.22 CXREF A.10.32.22
HP92453-01 A.10.32.22 HP C Compiler
/usr/lib/libc: $Revision: 76.3 $
If /opt/ansic/bin/cc isn't present on your system, then you have the bundled
(non-ANSI) C compiler and you can find the version via this command:
$ what /usr/ccs/bin/cc
/usr/ccs/bin/cc:
HP92453-01 A.10.32.00 HP C (Bundled) Compiler
/usr/lib/libc: $Revision: 76.3 $
Here's the revision history of the HP-UX 10.X C compiler:
To download the patches, we recommend that you use "Save Link As..." (right
button click on the patch link if you are using Netscape) - once downloaded,
just run the script with "sh patchname" to unpack the .text and .depot files -
you can then use swinstall (or swcopy) to apply the patch as documented in the
.text file. Also remember to de-install (via swremove) any prior patches for
the compiler or linker before installing a newer patch.
HP-UX 9.X filesets required for the HP ANSI C compiler
The following HP-UX 9.X filesets should be unpacked from the February 1994 or
later Application CD-ROMs (requires a codeword):
- C ... the C compiler
- C-AUX ... lex and yacc
- C-TOOLS ... lint, cxref and cflow (plus a few others)
- DEBUGGERS ... xdb and pxdb
- DEBUGGERS-MAN ... man page for xdb and pxdb
- C-HELP ... VUE (helpview) on-line help for the C compiler
You can check that these are installed by looking inside the directory /system,
where there should be a directory for each of the 6 filesets above. It is also
possible to find out what version of the compiler you have by typing:
$ what /bin/cc
/bin/cc:
HP92453-01 A.09.84 HP C Compiler
(CXREF A.09.84)
Here's the revision history of the HP-UX 9.X C compiler:
- A.09.19 (Bundled)
This is what you get when you haven't bought the ANSI C compiler. It's
nicknamed the "brain-dead C compiler" because it's completely useless for
anything other than rebuilding the /hp-ux kernel. You should unpack the ANSI
C compiler from the Application CD-ROMs, assuming you've bought it !
- A.09.28
One of the earliest HP SupportLine patches available. Long since superseded.
- A.09.34
This was the the last patch release before +O4 and other optimisation flags
were introduced and is probably the most bug-free release to date because of
that ! Note that you cannot patch this release - to upgrade it, you
must install from your CD-ROMs (see below).
No turning back from here for the 9.X compiler
To upgrade your HP-UX 9.X ANSI C compiler to any of the newer releases listed
below, you must install the HP ANSI C compiler from the Application
CD-ROMs (February 1994 or later) - it is no longer acceptable to apply one of
the later patches to upgrade, say, your A.09.34 release to the A.09.84 release.
- A.09.61 (CD-ROM only - DART #15 through to #21)
A major release that implemented a whole host of new
optimisation flags, including +O4 which takes ages to "link", plus a nasty set
of new optimiser bugs of course.
- A.09.63 (SupportLine patch)
Still had a serious +O3 +z bug
(used when building shared libraries).
- A.09.64 (SupportLine patch)
The +O3 +z bug finally got hit on the head here.
- A.09.66 (SupportLine patch)
Still had a few bugs that cropped up with the optimiser, impacting the
compilation of xpilot at +O4 +Oall for instance. This had 2
releases, both numbered A.09.66 would you believe !
- A.09.69 (SupportLine patch)
Unfortunately the bug
I reported was fixed internally at HP, but the fix was accidentally left out of
the released version :-( I've also reported a second
bug we've just discovered.
Note that it's now a Series 700/800 patch, rather than
just for the Series 700.
- A.09.70 (SupportLine patch)
Aaaarrgghh - both
bug 1 and
bug 2 that were in A.09.69 weren't fixed
in this version !!
- A.09.73 (CD-ROM only - DART #22 onwards)
After 14 months of the bug-ridden A.09.61 release being supplied to users
on CD-ROM, HP finally update their C compiler that they ship, only for it
to be virtually instantly superseded by a SupportLine patch !
- A.09.75 (SupportLine patch)
The two bugs that have persisted for a while have now been fixed with this
patch.
- A.09.77 (SupportLine patch)
Another dozen or so optimisation bugs fixed, although Peter Eiseman
recently discovered an unfixed
bug.
- A.09.82 (SupportLine patch)
Didn't spent much time looking at this because A.09.83 followed fairly
rapidly !
- A.09.83 (SupportLine patch)
All our user machines are now at 10.10, so the 9.X compiler is no longer
being used for binary builds and from now on we can't fully comment on bugs.
- A.09.84 (SupportLine patch)
You can get download this
from the US SupportLine as patch
PHSS_10357,
providing you have already installed A.09.61 or later first
of course.
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