From: Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
To: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: new test will hang 'make check-g77'
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 09:04:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rzqwwe178w8.fsf@djlvig.dl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19980311001521.37431@dgii.com>
>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Lipe <robertl@dgii.com> writes:
Robert> This isn't going to be popular, but it should be motivational. :-)
Robert> The new testcase
Robert> g77.f-torture/execute/980310-5.f
Robert> will hang forever when compiled with -O2 or higher, as a
Robert> 'make check' will do by default.
The code is bogus, and I'd been meaning to track down and withdraw my
unfortunate forwarding of it on a bad day after Craig examined it
properly. It's just a case of the classic numerical problems exposed
by use of x86 FP registers (-ffloat-store is your friend, to some
extent). Sorry for confusion, and thanks for digging these things
out.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-03-11 9:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-03-10 22:15 Robert Lipe
1998-03-11 9:04 ` Dave Love [this message]
1998-03-11 12:08 ` Robert Lipe
1998-03-11 15:53 ` Dave Love
1998-03-11 15:53 ` Robert Lipe
1998-03-12 8:07 ` Craig Burley
1998-03-12 11:34 ` Dave Love
1998-03-12 14:50 ` Toon Moene
1998-03-16 20:25 ` Adding g77 test cases to egcs Craig Burley
1998-03-12 12:44 ` new test will hang 'make check-g77' Dave Love
1998-03-11 9:39 ` Craig Burley
1998-03-11 9:39 ` Robert Lipe
1998-03-11 15:53 ` Craig Burley
1998-03-11 12:08 ` Robert Lipe
1998-03-11 17:54 ` Joe Buck
1998-03-12 10:40 Kate Hedstrom
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