MPC required in one week.

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 11/30/2009 09:47 PM, Michael Witten wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Kaveh R. GHAZI<ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu>  wrote:
>> The patch which makes the MPC library a hard requirement for GCC
>> bootstrapping has been approved today.
>
> Out of curiosity and ignorance: Why, specifically, is MPC going to be
> a hard requirement?
>
> On the prerequisites page, MPC is currently described with: "Having
> this library will enable additional optimizations on complex numbers."
>
> Does that mean that such optimizations are now an important
> requirement? or is MPC being used for something else?

They are a requirement for Fortran, but it's (much) simpler to do them 
for all front-ends.

Paolo