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Re: Reporting bugs: there is nothing to gain in frustrating reporters
Vincent Lefevre <vincent+gcc@vinc17.org> writes:
| On 2005-06-19 10:59:24 +0200, Mattias Karlsson wrote:
| > On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
| >
| > >>Since the "gcc-is-buggy" solution of changing x87 rounding modes will:
| > >>1) Be a lot of work.
| > >>2) Cause a lot of regressions.
| > >
| > >This remains to see. BTW, the Opteron uses SSE by default. Did you see
| > >a lot of regressions?
| >
| > Opteron is not an issue, when I talked about regressions above I
| > dont mean only "My code give a diffrent answer" regressions but also
| > "My code that uses both float/doubles is bigger and slower"
|
| Not by the proposed solution "of changing x87 rounding modes".
| Of course, this solution is not sufficient to completely fix the
| bug (due to the exponent range), but it would solve most problems.
since you seem OK with that solution, would you mind preparing a patch?
(discussions are not executables; someone needs to make things happen.)
-- Gaby