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Re: Bug with g77 and -mieee on Alpha Linux
- To: Dave Love <d dot love at dl dot ac dot uk>
- Subject: Re: Bug with g77 and -mieee on Alpha Linux
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 17:37:44 -0600
- cc: egcs-bugs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <rzqyagllbfj.fsf@djlvig.dl.ac.uk>you write:
> Jeff> On a technical note, while we certainly can not switch the
> Jeff> default to -mieee for this release, we can consider adding an
> Jeff> -mieee multilib to the alpha port for this release (assuming
> Jeff> the libraries will successfully build with -mieee).
>
> Yes, I built multilibbed (on OSF).
>
> Jeff> While it is not a perfect solution,
>
> It's perfect as far as the canonical test goes.
Right. But I believe folks have stated that -mieee has some problems on
the alpha. I don't read all the alpha stuff closely, so maybe I've got the
wrong thread.
>
> Jeff> it would provide the user with a more IEEE complaint
> Jeff> environment if requested *and* by making it at least an option
> Jeff> with this release -mieee will get more testing.
>
> Someone should document multilibs as not only applicable to libgcc and
> look for any other cases where they might be needed for the language
> runtimes but weren't for libgcc.
Yup. This kind of suggestion started making the rounds a couple weeks ago.
jeff