Re: [HACKERS] problem compiling with egcs 1.1.1

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Thomas G(dot) Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] problem compiling with egcs 1.1.1
Date: 1998-12-09 16:15:15
Message-ID: 10881.913220115@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> writes:
> What optimization level do you use? Do you find that the newer version
> of egcs does a good job with floating point rounding, or are the
> regression tests filled with ".999999" results? I much preferred the
> gcc-2.7.x behavior wrt graceful rounding, and hope that at some point
> egcs will also have it...

Are you sure you are right to blame the compiler? I should think this
would be a C library issue, not the compiler's fault...

regards, tom lane

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