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Re: is it a bug
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: is it a bug
- From: Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>
- Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 18:13:17 +0200
- Cc: egcs-bugs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
- References: <Your message of Wed, 05 May 1999 17:28:00 +0200. <C1256768.0053BAD6.00@lotusout.star.be>
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.