From current testsuite results, the optimizer bugs don't appear to exist
anymore. RTH@cygnus.com did a lot of work on the Alpha ELF code generator
for GCC 3.2[.0]. A recent FreeBSD/AXP GCC bootstrap is at
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2002-09/msg00604.html
In this bootstraps, all gcc libraries are built with -O2 and c-torture
gives -O2 a real workout. None of the remaining failures have anything
to do with -O2 optimizer bugs.
Submitted by: Loren James Rittle <rittle@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com>
value, it forces GCC to not optimize above this level. For intance, GCC
made with "WANT_FORCE_OPTIMIZATION_DOWNGRADE=1" is a good setting for the
Alpha platform when building ports.
This is enabled by the undocumented option -fformat-extensions.
This option should be named better and/or give more control over
the extensions.
Fixed a message - don't warn about the field width when it's the
precision that has the wrong type. Didn't fix excessive checking
for the precision relative to the type - ANSI requires both to be
ints, but gcc permits the field width to be either int or unsigned
int.
non-i386, non-unix, and generatable files have been trimmed, but can easily
be added in later if needed.
gcc-2.7.2.1 will follow shortly, it's a very small delta to this and it's
handy to have both available for reference for such little cost.
The freebsd-specific changes will then be committed, and once the dust has
settled, the bmakefiles will be committed to use this code.
