From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
To: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: egcs: A new compiler project to merge the existing GCC forks (fwd)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 09:47:52 -0000
Message-ID: <199708190808.KAA27589@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
In-reply-to: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 21:16:39 -0700 (PDT)"
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>>>>> "H" == H J Lu <hjl@lucon.org> writes:

 H> I downloaded this a few days ago - compiles and runs without any
 H> problems on a PentiumPro Linux 2.0.30 (Redhat 4.2) system - but:

 H> execution speed (floating point) of a test case (mdbench) 

Note that mdbnch (at least the version I know) is in double precision.
Thus other performance considerations are typically overshadowed on
ppro by the double alignment problems.  See the g77 manual.

 H>  - I am back right now to the old
 H> stuff, unless I get to hear a convincing reason why to switch.

I doubt it's wise to use the g77 in egcs seriously at least until it's
based on a version that's completed alpha testing for g77 0.5.21.