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Re: [doc, testsuite, libgfortran] Avoid use of SSE/SSE2/SSE3 on Solaris 8/9 x86
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Rainer Orth <ro@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I don't think we should make testsuite so much complex to support
>> old and broken Solaris. I'd rather to remove support for broken
>> Solaris 8/9 x86.
>
> This patch is exactly along the same lines as a previous one to check
> for SSE/SSE2 support in the assembler:
>
> ? ? ? ?http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2010-05/msg01276.html
>
> Why would one accept the former and reject the corresponding runtime
> tests of the latter? ?And where do you see actual complexity? ?The beef
> of the patch is concentrated in two files (sol2-check.h and fpu-387.h)
> and a single function call (sol2_check). ?Agreed, the patch is large,
> but mostly mechanical.
>
Your patch makes testcase to check both sse and sse run-time.
I don't like another check in testcase for SSE.
--
H.J.