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Re: Is it time to start using 4.0?
- From: Bradley Lucier <lucier at math dot purdue dot edu>
- To: mrs at apple dot com
- Cc: Bradley Lucier <lucier at math dot purdue dot edu>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 21:28:59 -0500
- Subject: Re: Is it time to start using 4.0?
Re:
We expect that the quality of the compiler is close to release
quality, generally, I'd say that we like to keep it near release
quality, though, bear in mind, if you get unlucky, you may find some
temporal instabilities.
Well, I must be really unlucky, since 4.0 has never correctly compiled
C code generated by the Gambit-C 4.0 beta Scheme->C compiler. It's
true that about once a month somebody fixes something that gets rid of
another code generation problem, but I'll consider 4.0 "close to
release quality" when I can start testing code generation quality and
compiler run times rather than code generation correctness.
Brad
PS: If anyone can tell me which version, if any, of gdb on either x86
linux, sparc solaris 9, or MacOS 10.3.6, can give me accurate debug
information for code compiled by 4.0 with options
FLAGS_OBJ = -O1 -fno-math-errno -fschedule-insns2 -fno-trapping-math
-fno-strict-aliasing -fomit-frame-pointer -fPIC
I would really appreciate it.