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Re: gcc test results question
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at welsh-buck dot org>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 23:12:28 -0700
- Subject: Re: gcc test results question
David Riedel writes:
> the test results posted at:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2004-07/msg00070.html
> show a large number (63) of unexpected failures. is this still considered a
> 'good' compiler suitable for building production code? i see a similar
> number of unexpected failures for the athlon-mp on my system.
Almost all the failures have to do with nested functions, which are an
extension (that is, they aren't standard C). That makes the results look
worse than they are, assuming that you write standard C.