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Re: gcc-2.95 status
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: gcc-2.95 status
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 19:17:05 -0400
- Cc: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>, egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
>>>>> Jeffrey A Law writes:
>> 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).
Jeff> I can confirm the the ppc code gen issue is not an unroller problem. I get
Jeff> the same failures with and without the unroller enabled.
Jeff> Yes, it's a good stress tester. Good to see the license is clear, even if we
Jeff> can't include it directly it's free and we can point folks at the canonical
Jeff> sources with instructions for testing.
Are you performing the PowerPC tests with -ffloat-store?
Otherwise it will use the FP multiply-add instructions and give excess
precision. The "iee" C torture tests were failing on the PowerPC port
until that flag was used for those tests.
David