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Re: Remaining machine status updates for 2.19
- From: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux dot org>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Adhemerval Zanella <azanella at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, Marcus Shawcroft <marcus dot shawcroft at gmail dot com>, David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>, rth at redhat dot com, kkojima at rr dot iij4u dot or dot jp, david dot holsgrove at xilinx dot com, Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>
- Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 10:39:55 +1000
- Subject: Re: Remaining machine status updates for 2.19
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On 04/02/14 10:20, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Feb 2014, Allan McRae wrote:
>
>> The two flagged with a * [ARM, PowerPC (soft-float)] both have had their
>> test failures noted in the "Known issues" section, so we know they have
>> been run, just not the compiler/linker versions used. Others have had
>> ULP updates done, but nothing recorded at all.
>
> As I said in <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-01/msg00340.html>,
> I don't think this is a sensible organization of the release page - I
> think there should be just one status section for each architecture.
That seems reasonable - I missed that message. Feel free to just record
the information there. But we still need some information on the
compiler used.
> ARM, MIPS and PowerPC soft-float have all been tested using GCC 4.7 branch
> (with various libgcc patches as previously posted and in some cases
> committed to GCC trunk - IBM long double for powerpc, Thomas's fp-bit NaN
> fixes for MIPS) together with git binutils. I don't have specific
> checkout dates.
Adding notes that various math failures are expected without a patched
gcc, and even a pointer to the patches, would be useful.
Allan