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From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
To: "Kaveh R. GHAZI" <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: MPC required in one week.
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:17:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4087cc50911301247x12b9022bkcf9d7e2977c523d7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0911300052170.20220@caipclassic.rutgers.edu>

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Kaveh R. GHAZI <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> The patch which makes the MPC library a hard requirement for GCC
> bootstrapping has been approved today.

Out of curiosity and ignorance: Why, specifically, is MPC going to be
a hard requirement?

On the prerequisites page, MPC is currently described with: "Having
this library will enable additional optimizations on complex numbers."

Does that mean that such optimizations are now an important
requirement? or is MPC being used for something else?

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-30 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-30  8:07 Kaveh R. GHAZI
2009-11-30 21:17 ` Michael Witten [this message]
2009-11-30 22:53   ` Kaveh R. Ghazi
2009-12-01 10:26   ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-12-27  7:05     ` Silvius Rus
2009-12-28  2:47       ` Jie Zhang
2009-12-28  2:51     ` Jie Zhang

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