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* Revisiting GCC's minimum MPFR version
@ 2007-12-09 23:21 Kaveh R. GHAZI
  2007-12-10  0:37 ` Richard Guenther
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Kaveh R. GHAZI @ 2007-12-09 23:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gcc; +Cc: richard.guenther

As requested by Richard G here:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2007-05/msg00945.html

I'm re-visiting during stage3 the minimum MPFR version required by GCC.
At the time of the above post, mpfr-2.3.0 had not yet been released, but
it was this past August, and one can obtain it here:
http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-current

The current situation is that GCC requires only mpfr-2.2.0, however it
recommends mpfr-2.2.1 in the documentation and configure checks.  (If
configure find 2.2.0, it will say something like "buggy but acceptable"
and continue bootstrapping).

Also, there is some functionality for builtin bessel, remquo and gamma
functions that is only active when mpfr-2.3.0 is available.  The testcase
gcc.dg/torture/builtin-math-4.c for these mpfr-2.3.0 functions is XFAILed
at the moment.


Our options include:

1.  Do nothing.  Things work, don't break it.  Revisit again in stage1.

2.  Continue accepting 2.2.0, but update the recommended version from
    2.2.1 to 2.3.0.  This would entail updating the configure warning,
    the docs and the removing the XFAIL from the testcase.  This
    option would cause no change in hard bootstrap requirements.

3.  In addtion to #2, hard fail for anything less than mpfr-2.3.0.


I have no strong opinion on which way to go.

		Thoughts?
		--Kaveh
--
Kaveh R. Ghazi			ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu

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2007-12-09 23:21 Revisiting GCC's minimum MPFR version Kaveh R. GHAZI
2007-12-10  0:37 ` Richard Guenther
2007-12-10  1:48   ` Mark Mitchell
2007-12-10 20:59     ` PATCH: Update MPFR versions (was Re: Revisiting GCC's minimum MPFR version) Kaveh R. GHAZI
2007-12-10 22:35       ` Mark Mitchell
2007-12-10  7:25   ` Revisiting GCC's minimum MPFR version Gabriel Dos Reis

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