RFH: Building and testing gimple-tuples-branch

[Diego Novillo]

On 5/12/08 1:21 PM, David Daney wrote:

> For mipsel-linux:
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2008-05/msg01055.html

Thanks.

> The complete bootstrap/test cycle seems to be about 10% faster than on 
> the trunk.  I didn't try to figure out why, although I can speculate 
> that it is due to the fact that some optimization passes are still 
> disabled and that tests that ICE prevent the corresponding execution 
> test to be run.

Perhaps.  There are still some unconverted passes that are run by 
default (e.g., PRE).  That could explain the faster bootstrap times.  I 
will try to set up apples-to-apples comparisons between the branch and 
mainline in the next few days.


> Although I didn't investigate, the FAILure in libjava/Array_3, usually 
> indicate that exception handling is broken in some way.

OK, thanks.  EH has certainly given us no end of headaches.


Diego.