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Re: A bug in GCC 2.95.2 for SPARC
- To: martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de, aoliva at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: A bug in GCC 2.95.2 for SPARC
- From: James Cheng <James dot Cheng at eng dot sun dot com>
- Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 14:46:04 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org, james dot cheng at eng dot sun dot com
- Reply-To: James Cheng <James dot Cheng at eng dot sun dot com>
Martin, Alexandre,
Thanks for your suggestions. I will download and try GCC 2.96 snapshot.
> > Thanks for your quick reply. However, I do need to use ultrasparc
> > instructions.
>
> That makes me curious. Can you please explain why you need that? I'd
> think a typical C program would not care about the processor it runs
> on...
For performance reason. UltraSPARC is a 64-bit processor, where one
64-bit store (std) is faster than two 32-bit stores (st). We are
building a performance library for media applications.
Regards,
-James