gcc/libm floating-point bug?
Jon Lido
jlido at goof.com
Tue May 20 12:12:30 PDT 2003
On Tuesday 20 May 2003 02:00 pm, David Schultz wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2003, Jon Lido wrote:
> > Well, I do have a P4, and had built everything with -march=pentium4.
> > However, rebuilding the kernel and modules with -march=pentium3 produces
> > the same results.
>
> This isn't a kernel problem, so you need to rebuild libm and libc
> without -march=pentium4. You really don't want to be using the
> Pentium 4 optimizations in gcc 3.2 anyway; the generated code is
> generally slower. gcc 3.3 has fixes for a number of the bugs, but
> I don't know about the performance problems.
Yes, this was the problem. I rebuilt world with -march=pentium3 and that did
the trick.
I'm not sure how CPUTYPE gets handled, but perhaps p4 should expand to
-march=pentium3, if possible. There seems no point to generating slower,
broken code. Once gcc 3.3 is part of the base system this could be put back.
Thanks to everyone for their help!
-Jon
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