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From: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh@redhat.com>
To: Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: ieee.exp tests containing generic FP tests
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 02:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041015235744.GA7260@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2pt3j7hgv.fsf@greed.local>

> Some non-IEEE machines don't just not have NaNs, they also have
> arithmetic that differs in some important way from what the IEEE
> standard specifies.  Tests outside the IEEE directory can't really
> rely on any particular floating-point implementation.
> 
> As far as I can tell, all these tests really won't work on some
> non-IEEE machine.

Bummer.  I guess, it's between XFAILing 90% of the tests on ieee/,
or disabling them entirely (for e500).

'Suppose it won't hurt to disable them.

Thanks Geoff.

Aldy

      reply	other threads:[~2004-10-15 23:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-15 20:39 Aldy Hernandez
2004-10-15 23:44 ` Geoffrey Keating
2004-10-16  2:25   ` Aldy Hernandez [this message]

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