> On 31-07-2015, at 20:46, peter dalgaard <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 31 Jul 2015, at 12:33 , Timothy Bates <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> This happened for me too: that Intel Core 2 is just too old for the compiler.
>> 
>> I used it as a stimulus to buy a new laptop… As a bonus, everything is ~10x 
>> faster
>> Best, tim
> 
> Hum, well, I wasn't actually planning to switch out my MB Air just now.
> 
> I'm actually baffled that I haven't bumped into this before. Both my laptop 
> and my office desktop are Core 2 Duo machines (and the latter is the one that 
> builds the R source releases!).
> 

If you use gfortran: which version?
If you are not using any floating point then gfortran-4.8 will probably work 
without problems.
I think.

> Anyone have some harder info on this? Is it the case that gfortran-4.8 cannot 
> compile code for the C2D architecture, or is it just that the compiler 
> binaries on Simon's site were built for later architectures and are not 
> backwards compatible. The latter could be fixed by rebuilding the compiler.
> 

As far I know the compiler binaries use/generate floating point instructions 
directly or indirectly that cannot be handled by a C2D.
See this reply by Simon to my original post:  
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2014-May/010895.html
Probably more than just the compiler binaries would have to be recompiled.

Berend

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