Re: OpenBSD/Sparc status

Darcy Buskermolen wrote:
> On November 19, 2004 10:55 am, you wrote:
> 
>>The answer is: it's a gcc bug.  The attached program should print
>>x = 12.3
>>y = 12.3
>>
>>but if compiled with -O or -O2 on Stefan's machine, I get garbage:
>>
>>$ gcc -O  ftest.c
>>$ ./a.out
>>x = 12.3
>>y = 1.47203e-39
>>$ gcc -v
>>Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/sparc64-unknown-openbsd3.6/3.3.2/specs
>>Configured with:
>>Thread model: single
>>gcc version 3.3.2 (propolice)
>>$
> 
> 
> I can confirm this behavior on Solaris 8/sparc 64 as well.

some more datapoints:

solaris 2.9 with gcc 3.1 is broken(-O3 does not help here)
linux/sparc64 (debian) with gcc 3.3.5 is broken too

So it looks like at least gcc 3.1 and gcc 3.3.x are affected on Sparc64 
on all operating systems.


Stefan