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Re: GCC -On optimization passes: flag and doc issues
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 22:51 +0200, Joerg Wunsch wrote:
> As Steven Bosscher wrote:
>
> > >The idea behind that tool is great, I only wish the authors had
> > >taken a class in portable shell scripting before. It's not that
> > >all the world's a Vax these days...
>
> > Patches welcome, I guess.
>
> Well, quite an amount of work, alas. There's no central template in
> CSiBE where this could be changed, instead, they apparently manually
> changed each and any of the Makefiles etc. in the src/ subdirectories
> there, so it's almost 50 files to make identical changes to.
>
> I intended to spend my time into trying the various possible GCC
> configurations (including the really promising idea Richard Guenther
> proposed), not into patching the benchmark tool. It's not that I'm a
> university student anymore that has almost indefinate time at hands to
> spend... That's been 20 years ago.
>
> Another thing is to extend CSiBE so it could be used to compile some
> meaningful AVR code. It's not that I'm lacking that kind of code, but
> these manually hacked Makefiles for each tool make it kinda difficult
> to adapt the benchmark suite to different sources that are more
> appropriate to the AVR.
There's no need to hack everything up. As long as you have bash
installed on your machine, it's straight-forward to run CSiBE on *BSD
machines: simply invoke the makefiles with SHELL=.../bash.
R.