Re: gcc-2.95 status

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <378A64F0.8DC9B8CF@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>you write:
  > Well, you wouldn't believe this, but we are actually talking about two
  > different versions of LAPACK, in spite of the fact that I sent the
  > correct URL.  The library was updated on the 30th of June 1999, after
  > about 4.5 years ...
Amazing.

  > Obviously, they fixed one non-standard construct and put another one in
  > its stead ;-)
Yup.  Fixing the one I ran into was fairly easy, even for a C guy like myself.


  > >   > 2. The build process assumes . is in your PATH (though not necessaril
  > y
  > >   >    in first position).
  > > Thanks.  That saved me some time ;-)
  > 
  > However, it might be that this isn't necessary with the new version.
It is necessary.  I got bit by this gem, went back and found your message
for the solution.

[ .SUMM files] 
  > Even this could have been fixed.  I'm sorry, I haven't been able to make
  > the modem in this laptop function long enough to download 5 Mbytes of
  > data in one stretch.
Nope.  Got bit by this one too.  Went back to your message for the solution.


  > Obviously, I haven't read all the code, but the majority seems to be in
  > the form of "one subroutine per file".
I can confirm now, it's an unroller problem that is causing the test
failures on the PA. I can (and will) live with that for this release, though
it's worth keeping in mind so that we can fix it :-)

  > Yep, it's a pretty severe test - and with a clear license (I mean, we
  > cannot include it as it is in our testsuite, but we might simply include
  > a reference in our Web documents where to find it and how to run it).
I can confirm the the ppc code gen issue is not an unroller problem.  I get
the same failures with and without the unroller enabled.

Yes, it's a good stress tester.  Good to see the license is clear, even if we
can't include it directly it's free and we can point folks at the canonical
sources with instructions for testing.

Thanks for the help.
jeff