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Antwort: Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)
- From: Markus Milleder <markus dot milleder at generali dot at>
- To: vincent+gcc at vinc17 dot org
- Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk at stusta dot de>, fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:42:08 +0200
- Subject: Antwort: Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)
Vincent Lefevre schrieb am 13.10.2008 16:16:38:
> On 2008-10-07 21:42:30 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > But is there any "need to upgrade" to 2.3.2 since it would fix a bug
> > gcc ran into?
>
> FYI, GCC can be affected by some bugs in MPFR 2.3.0, amongst the bugs
<snip bug list>
> All these bugs were fixed in MPFR 2.3.1. AFAIK, MPFR 2.3.2 should
> not make any difference for GCC. The fixed bugs are listed here:
<snip again>
This seems to call for MPFR 2.3.1 as a minimum version for GCC 4.4
However, let me ask the reverse question:
Is there any reason not to demand 2.3.2 for GCC 4.4 ? Or even the newest MPFR version published before creating the GCC 4.4 release branch (which could be 2.3.3) ?
Markus Milleder