Irix6.4 regression test egcs-1.0.3a vs egcs-19980803

[Mike Stump]

> From: tprince@cat.e-mail.com
> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 17:36:23 EDT

> Livermore Kernel tests also show progress.  All kernels show
> expected double precision accuracy, and 7 of the 24 run at the same
> speed as with SGI's best compiler.  Performance differences are due
> mainly to the lack of implementation in egcs of the floating point
> multiply-add sequence instructions.

Maybe you can write a canonical testcase in C, show us the output that
egcs gets, and the output by SGI's best ocmpiler, and find someone
willing to give it a try.  For pointers on who to implement this in
gcc, people can look for mac in a29k, h8300, sh, and sparc.

Get way to get your feet wet.