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Re: Results for egcs-2.91.52 19980727 (gcc2 ss-980609 experiment
- To: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Subject: Re: Results for egcs-2.91.52 19980727 (gcc2 ss-980609 experiment
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 23:39:23 -0600
- cc: Carlo Wood <carlo at runaway dot xs4all dot nl>, egcs at cygnus dot com (egcs at cygnus dot com)
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <9808060305.AA12372@marc.watson.ibm.com>you write:
> If you want correct IEEE operation from IBM POWER architecture (or
> common-mode within AIX), one must use the GCC -ffloat-store option to
> prevent the excess precision. AIX XLC has a similar option. Maybe this
> option should be used for all testcases in the execute/ieee subdirectory.
Yea, it probably should. I don't think it ever occurred to anyone that
execute/ieee should probably be compiled with -ffloat-store.
jeff