Re: gcc/libm floating-point bug?

From: Morten Rodal <morten_at_rodal.no>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 20:42:34 +0200
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 11:03:36AM -0700, David Schultz wrote:
> That's for an Alpha-specific problem.  The i386-specific problem
> is due to a bug gcc has that involves Pentium 4 code generation
> and aliasing.  The latter can be fixed by removing
> -march=pentium4, disabling optimization, or upgrading to gcc 3.3.
> The former is intentional and not expected to change; gcc
> generates non-standard FP math code on Alpha because it saves a
> few instructions to deal with NaNs, etc.  We work around it by
> setting -mieee in bsd.cpu.mk for Alpha.
>

The upgrade from gcc 3.2 to 3.3 isn't scheduled before after 5.1 is
released? (I think I saw some post about that someplace)

-- 
Morten Rodal


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