Re: Testsuite ad RedHat 7

[Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at mediaone dot net>]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 02:50:52AM +0200, jfm2@club-internet.fr wrote:
> 
> 
> Has anyone run a testsuite on the compiler in RedHat 7 and compared
> with a run using gcc-2.95.  This could settle the question of what
> compiler is the less buggier once and for all.  It is not that
> difficult to make gcc 2.95.2 core dump if you are agressive with
> optimization flags so it cannot deemed perfect.

gcc 2.96 cannot compile kernel 2.2.x.  To some people, that qualifies
the compiler as buggy.  To others, that qualifies the kernel as buggy. :)

For testing the C++ compiler, how about trying to compile Blitz++, which
is a heavy-duty C++ matrix class library which makes heavy use of templates:
http://www.oonumerics.org/blitz/

I routinely compile ACE, which is a C++ networking library:
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-obtain.html

I had some problems with certain earlier versions of 2.96 in June/July, but
2.96 is such a moving target that I can't say for sure what didn't work.  
Things seem pretty stable with the October snapshots of 2.97 from Codesourcery.

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Craig Rodrigues        
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