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Re: gcc3 vs 176.gcc
- From: dewar at gnat dot com
- To: dalej at apple dot com, dewar at gnat dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk
- Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 21:08:46 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: gcc3 vs 176.gcc
<<I'm not exactly sure what you're asking. SPEC CPU2000 is a benchmark,
not a test. SPEC regards standards compliance as a desirable goal, but
not a requirement. They are more interested in portability. There are
other cases where SPEC has nonstandard usage. For example, "long long"
was used before it was in the standards.
>>
There is a difference between an extended feature, which the SPEC suite
therefore tends to encourage people to implement, and undefined code,
which means that a valid compiler can produce anything (presumably
any such test may be easy to compile quick code for :-)