Re: Intel Fortran compiler for Windows cra****ng

Catherine Rees Lay wrote:
> Jon Harrop wrote:
>> I'm trying to get BLAS and LAPACK to compile in Visual Studio using
>> Intel's Fortran compiler but it crashes at random places and I cannot
get
>> it to build the whole project (nor would I trust the result even if it
>> did happen to complete one time!).
>> 
>> Has anyone else found Intel's Fortran compiler to be extremely
unstable?
>> This is x86 Windows XP with VS 2005.
> 
> I've not found it to be unstable at all. The closest to "unstable" I've
> had has been that just occasionally, after several tens of hours of
> repeatedly running in debug mode with multiple crashes due to problems
> in the code, the debugger starts being a bit weird (telling me variables
> aren't defined, when I can see from the calculations it's doing that it
> knows full well internally that they are). Shutting it down and starting
> it up again has always fixed the problem, and it's never affected the
> results.

Ok. Other people seem to have had no problem as well so I shall battle on.

> Are you sure that all the libraries you're trying to link with are
> intended for use with that compiler?

I am just trying to compile stand-alone BLAS and LAPACK F77 code with no
dependencies, nothing fancy etc.

> I have managed to confuse it fairly 
> thoroughly when I accidentally linked in an old library which wasn't set
> up to check for argument mismatches, when everything else was.

Maybe it is pulling something in by accident. I'll check it out, thanks.

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