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Re: GCC 3.0 Release Criteria
>>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Thornburg <jthorn@galileo.thp.univie.ac.at> writes:
Jonathan> A couple of comments/suggestions:
>> Applications
>>
>> In addition to the regression-testing mentioned above, it is
>> important that operation of the compiler be verified on some
>> real-word applications. The following applications represent a
>> mix of low-level and high-level code, of numerical and logical
>> programs, and of different programming languages.
>>
>> CAPTION: Integration Tests
>>
>> Name Language Version Source URL Linux kernel C 2.2.14
>> linux-2.2.14.tar.gz GNU Emacs C 20.6 emacs-20.6.tar.gz POOMA
>> C++ 2.2.0 pooma-2.2.0.tgz LAPACK Fortran 2.0
Jonathan> ===
Jonathan> I'm surprised to see LAPACK 2.0 (dated 30 Sept 1994
Jonathan> according to the Netlib web site) specified, when LAPACK
Jonathan> 3.0update is available (dated 31 Oct 1999). Is there a
Jonathan> deep reason for this?
Yes. Our Fortran maintainer indicated that GCC 2.95.x did not work
with LAPACK 3.0. I don't know that anyone has worked on solving those
problems yet. GCC 3.0 will be monotonically no worse that GCC 2.95.x;
there's no guarantee that all open issues will be resolved.
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