Re: target/6299: sparcv9-sun-solaris2.7 gcc-3.1 C testsuite failure in execute/950511-1.c

["Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu>]

The following reply was made to PR target/6299; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu>
To: rth@redhat.com
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: target/6299: sparcv9-sun-solaris2.7 gcc-3.1 C testsuite failure in execute/950511-1.c
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 21:56:20 -0400 (EDT)

  > From: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
  > 
  > On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 04:03:24PM -0000, ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu wrote:
  > > It started as of a 4/12/2002 checkout:
  > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2002-04/msg00478.html
  > > 
  > > ***  This is a regression from 3.0.3 and 2.95.2.
  > 
  > Are you sure?  It actually "started" by config.guess starting
  > to generate v9 code by default.
  > r~
 
 Perhaps, but I look at it this way: I have a solaris box which happens
 to allow sparcv9 insns.  The older gcc's installed on that system out
 of the box run the testcase fine.  The current 3.1 snapshot out of the
 box doesn't.
 
 While the "guessed" configuration may have changed, from the user
 perspective its a regression because they don't know or care about the
 internal nuances of config.guess like we do.
 
 		--Kaveh
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