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Re: Irix6.4 regression test egcs-1.0.3a vs egcs-19980803
- To: egcs at cygnus dot com, tprince at cat dot e-mail dot com
- Subject: Re: Irix6.4 regression test egcs-1.0.3a vs egcs-19980803
- From: mrs at wrs dot com (Mike Stump)
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 11:21:35 -0700
> From: tprince@cat.e-mail.com
> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 17:36:23 EDT
> Livermore Kernel tests also show progress. All kernels show
> expected double precision accuracy, and 7 of the 24 run at the same
> speed as with SGI's best compiler. Performance differences are due
> mainly to the lack of implementation in egcs of the floating point
> multiply-add sequence instructions.
Maybe you can write a canonical testcase in C, show us the output that
egcs gets, and the output by SGI's best ocmpiler, and find someone
willing to give it a try. For pointers on who to implement this in
gcc, people can look for mac in a29k, h8300, sh, and sparc.
Get way to get your feet wet.