gcc.c-torture/compile/20001226-1.c Times Out on Irix

[Jeffrey Oldham]

On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 10:31:56PM -0800, Geoff Keating wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 16:12:36 -0800
> > From: Jeffrey Oldham <oldham@codesourcery.com>
> > Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, Jeffrey Oldham <oldham@codesourcery.com>
> 
> > Being relatively new to the gcc world, I do not know the purpose of
> > the gcc testsuite.  If its purpose is to reveal
> > 1) errors in the compiler => please add "-fno-delayed-branch".
> > 2) inefficiencies in the compiler => please leave the test unchanged.
> 
> It's to reveal problems in the compiler, both errors and serious
> inefficiencies.  I don't know if this qualifies as 'serious'; if it
> was specific to this testcase, then that would probably not be serious
> (as it's a synthetic testcase) but I have some indications that this
> might affect any function with a sufficiently large basic block.  In
> short, someone needs to work out what is causing the inefficiency to
> determine the scope of the problem.

OK.  Let's just leave the test unchanged.

Thanks,
Jeffrey D. Oldham
oldham@codesourcery.com