Re: optimization/8878: miscompilation with -O and SSE

[Volker Reichelt <reichelt@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>]

The following reply was made to PR optimization/8878; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Volker Reichelt <reichelt@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
To: janis187@us.ibm.com
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, kronoz@tiscali.it
Subject: Re: optimization/8878: miscompilation with -O and SSE
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 21:17:49 +0200 (CEST)

 Hi Janis,
 
 PR 8878 got fixed on mainline in the last couple of days (somewhere
 between 2003-03-29 and 2003-04-02).
 Since the bug is in the category "wrong-code" it would be nice
 if the patch could be backported to 3.3 (and maybe even 3.2) to
 prevent silent miscompilations.
 
 Could you please identify the patch that fixed the problem?
 Maybe the following testcase is more convenient for the hunt,
 since you can check the return value instead of the output:
 
 ------------------------snip here----------------------------
 typedef int v4sf __attribute__((mode(V4SF)));
 
 int main(void)
 {
     v4sf v = {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0};
     union { v4sf v; float f[4]; } u;
 
     u.v = __builtin_ia32_mulps(v,v);
 
     return u.f[0];
 }
 ------------------------snip here----------------------------
 
 Just compile with "gcc -march=i686 -msse -O".
 
 Thanks,
 Volker
 
 http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view%20audit-trail&database=gcc&pr=8878