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Re: gcc-2.95 and complex on the alpha
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: gcc-2.95 and complex on the alpha
- From: Christian Iseli <chris at ludwig-alpha dot unil dot ch>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 10:02:08 +0200
- Cc: egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
law@cygnus.com said:
> Anytime you access a complex value in which the sub-components are
> less than the size of the target machine's word size you are going to
> have problems, It has nothing to do with optimization.
> In this case you have a complex with "float" sub-components. floats
> are 32bits and the word size on an alpha is 64 bits. You lose.
So, am I correct in assuming that I can't have "float complex" on the alpha and
the glibc is mistaken in trying to implement them on the alpha ?
Should this be propagated to the glibc-bug mailing list ?
Christian