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Re: Results for egcs-2.91.52 19980727 (gcc2 ss-980609 experiment
- To: dje at watson dot ibm dot com (David Edelsohn)
- Subject: Re: Results for egcs-2.91.52 19980727 (gcc2 ss-980609 experiment
- From: Carlo Wood <carlo at runaway dot xs4all dot nl>
- Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 03:26:41 +0200 (CEST)
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com (egcs at cygnus dot com)
| Your change does not solve the failure. Even if it did, it
| changes the program and is testing something different. This is not a bug
| in the compiler nor in the program, so trying to workaround it is a waste
| of time, IMO. This shouldn't be considered a failure.
|
| David
It doesn't? Weird...
I don't think it would be a waste of time though, either it IS a bug
that this program fails or the program should be adjusted so it
tests the correct thing. Ruling out the PowerPC architecture seems
unlogical to me: A user could expect (rely on ;) the accuracy one
would expect with sizeof(float) == 4. Its a bit "fuzzy" to use
double internally on one platform and not on others, without
a clear way to detect this other then by knowing on what platform
you're running.
--
Carlo Wood <carlo@runaway.xs4all.nl>