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Re: is it a bug


At 17:37 05.05.99 , Jeffrey A Law wrote:

>   In message <C1256768.0053BAD6.00@lotusout.star.be>you write:
>   > on a HP 795  HPUX-10.20 with egcs-1.1.2, the same test program runs 
> in 5.8
>   > seconds,
>   > althought the whole system runs usually FASTER (i.e povray runs in 6m40
>   > instead of 9 min on Linux !)
>Presumably this is a PA8000 class machine machine?  THe egcs-1.1.2 code
>generator does not optimize well for PA8000 machines (in fact, in some cases
>it will pessimize code, particularly floating point).
>
>You might want to try a recent snapshot -- Jerry Quinn has done some work to
>improve our PA8000 code generation.

Hi Jeff,

this work on the PA, did it fix bugs too? I'm asking cause I just noticed 
that the FAIL of compile/980329-1.c is gone on the PA since around 
beginning of April, but I still get it on PPC.
Any hints on that?

Franz.



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