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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 15:45:08 +0200 (CEST)
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com (egcs at cygnus dot com)
| If you want correct IEEE operation from IBM POWER architecture (or
| common-mode within AIX), one must use the GCC -ffloat-store option to
| prevent the excess precision. AIX XLC has a similar option. Maybe this
| option should be used for all testcases in the execute/ieee subdirectory.
If adding -ffloat-store to the test cases solves the problem that it
FAILs, then that seems a good solution to me :).
Maybe you can write a patch and post it to cvs-patches for more discussion?
I'd do it, but I don't have this architecture to test anything.
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Carlo Wood <carlo@runaway.xs4all.nl>