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Re: GCC Status (2004-08-09)
- From: Roger Sayle <roger at eyesopen dot com>
- To: mitchell at mail dot codesourcery dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, <dnovillo at redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 17:53:25 -0600 (MDT)
- Subject: Re: GCC Status (2004-08-09)
On 9 Aug 2004 mitchell@mail.codesourcery.com wrote:
> It would be a disappointment to release 3.5 if we're getting inferior
> benchmark numbers relative to 3.4.x. I'm hoping that the numbers are
> already better, or can relatively easily be made to be better. Right
> now, Diego's tester is showing us close to GCC 3.3.x on integer and
> floating-point tests -- but well behind GCC 3.1.x and 3.2.x on
> floating-point tests. (Something untoward happened in late July it
> looks like.)
I've already contacted Diego about this. The serious SPECfp2000
regression on his tester is caused by the fact that its no longer
building gfortran. I suspect the problem is that his boxes don't
have MPFR installed, so the recently added configure tests fail.
Roger
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