Reporting bugs: there is nothing to gain in frustrating reporters

Mattias Karlsson betasoft@acc.umu.se
Sun Jun 19 08:59:00 GMT 2005


On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

>> Since the "gcc-is-buggy" solution of changing x87 rounding modes will:
>> 1) Be a lot of work.
>> 2) Cause a lot of regressions.
>
> This remains to see. BTW, the Opteron uses SSE by default. Did you see
> a lot of regressions?

Opteron is not an issue, when I talked about regressions above I dont mean 
only "My code give a diffrent answer" regressions but also "My code that 
uses both float/doubles is bigger and slower"



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