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Re: [patch, fortran] Fix NEAREST for float formats without infinity
- From: "Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand at de dot ibm dot com>
- To: sgk at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu (Steve Kargl)
- Cc: blomqvist dot janne at gmail dot com (Janne Blomqvist), gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:59:15 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: [patch, fortran] Fix NEAREST for float formats without infinity
Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 07:39:58PM +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> > Steve Kargl wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 03:54:50PM +0100, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> > > > I guess you could consider this to be a regression: the in-line
> > > > expansion via gfc_conv_intrinsic_nearest was newly introduced
> > > > with GCC 4.4; for GCC 4.3, you'd always get a call to a libgfortran
> > > > library routine.
> > > >
> > > > This has the effect that using NEAREST on gfortran 4.3 for the SPU
> > > > does *not* result in that warning, but with gfortran 4.4 it does.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Ulrich,
> > >
> > > Please commit the patch to trunk.
> >
> > I've committed the patch to trunk now, thanks!
> >
> > Given that this is actually a regression in 4.4, would it be OK
> > to apply the patch to the 4.4 branch as well?
> >
>
> Yes. Please wait until after the release unless you can
> convince RM to let you apply the patch prior to release.
OK, I'll wait until after the release. Thanks!
Bye,
Ulrich
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Dr. Ulrich Weigand
GNU Toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell BE
Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com