[Bug c/32314] New: for gcc-4.2gcc-4disable-decimal-float not working on i686, powerpc, sparc. gcc-4.3.0

["malitzke at metronets dot com" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

disable-decimal-float not working on i686, powerpc, sparc neither gcc-4.2.1 nor
gcc-4.3.0

Proof; below is a compossite from directory libdecnumber(top of config.status
and ls -l)

This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

It was created by cpplib configure  , which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.59.  Invocation command line was

  $ /var/tmp/gcc_r43/gcc-4.3.0/libcpp/configure --cache-file=./config.cache
--prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --disable-nls
--disable-multilib --disable-werror --disable-libunwind-exceptions
--disable-checking --disable-decimal-float --enable-shared --enable-tls
--enable-threads=posix --enable-bootstrap --enable-__cxa_atexit
--enable-clocale=gnu --with-cpu=pentium3 --with-system-zlib
--enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --program-transform-name=s,y,y,
--build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=i686-pc-linux-gnu
--srcdir=../../gcc-4.3.0/libcpp --with-build-libsubdir=.

## --------- ##
## Platform. ##
## --------- ##
......................

total 620
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   7902 2007-06-12 18:40 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  18924 2007-06-12 18:40 charset.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   7826 2007-06-12 18:40 config.cache
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   8674 2007-06-12 18:40 config.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  77880 2007-06-12 18:40 config.log
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  44155 2007-06-12 18:40 config.status
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  21976 2007-06-12 18:40 directives.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2976 2007-06-12 18:40 errors.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  17068 2007-06-12 18:40 expr.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  14284 2007-06-12 18:40 files.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2216 2007-06-12 18:40 identifiers.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   6364 2007-06-12 18:40 init.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  17848 2007-06-12 18:40 lex.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 152672 2007-06-12 18:40 libcpp.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   3472 2007-06-12 18:40 line-map.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     38 2007-06-12 18:40 localedir.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     10 2007-06-12 18:40 localedir.hs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  17048 2007-06-12 18:40 macro.o
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 130464 2007-06-12 18:40 makedepend
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   3848 2007-06-12 18:40 makedepend.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4652 2007-06-12 18:40 mkdeps.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   7448 2007-06-12 18:40 pch.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     10 2007-06-12 18:40 stamp-h1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   3980 2007-06-12 18:40 symtab.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   9948 2007-06-12 18:40 traditional.o

What follows is __not__ directed against Mr. Cowlishaw; as he did a very
workman-like programming job.

It is directed against people within the gcc community who jointly perpetrated
a bad joke on the C language. If they insist on mixing C and decimal
arithmetic; plus adding insult to injury by making the disable not work; I
would suggest adding a new language to the GNU Compiler Collection as follows:

PL1-C or Cobol-ng.

Disclosure: I have a "Certificate in Data Processing". I got it about 35 years
ago while doing real-time assembly language body-shopping for a
"Beltway-Bandit" type outfit. I learned COBOL From the COBOL chapter in Jean E.
Sammet's  excellent book Book "Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals.
Enough Said"


-- 
           Summary:  for gcc-4.2gcc-4disable-decimal-float not working on
                    i686, powerpc, sparc.   gcc-4.3.0
           Product: gcc
           Version: 4.2.1
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: blocker
          Priority: P3
         Component: c
        AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
        ReportedBy: malitzke at metronets dot com
 GCC build triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnugcc-4disable-decimal-float not working
                    on i686,
  GCC host triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu
GCC target triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32314