Gfortran annual report for 2008

2008-01-01 Thread Paul Thomas
Gfortran maintainers have kept up the momentum of 2006 and the number of known F95 bugs has gone down sharply, the diagnostic capability has increased and new F2003/8 features added. Hopefully, the contributors can continue to move forward with bug fixes, conformance to Fortran 95 standard, and t

Re: MPFR 2.3.1 Release Candidate

2008-01-01 Thread Kaveh R. GHAZI
On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2007-12-31 14:38:21 -0500, Kaveh R. GHAZI wrote: > > The bug would need to be exposed using a mantissa size of a C type, like > > 53 for double, and the default exponent range. And all the global mpfr > > flags are cleared beforehand, > > Are they c

Re: What is a regression?

2008-01-01 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Mark Mitchell wrote: > [...] I realized that the documentation we currently have up at http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs/management.html was partly incorrect (only listing P1 to P2) and certainly quite incomplete, so I tried to cast my understanding and what I found in this thread int

Re: Optimizations documentation

2008-01-01 Thread Tim Prince
Константин wrote: Hi! I ask you to put optimimizations tips for programmers into your documentation site on www. Sure, there are some texts about program optimimization, but you are the only one, who really understand compilation and execution processes and know how to make program faster. I

Optimizations documentation

2008-01-01 Thread Константин
Hi! I ask you to put optimimizations tips for programmers into your documentation site on www. Sure, there are some texts about program optimimization, but you are the only one, who really understand compilation and execution processes and know how to make program faster. I read on some site th

Re: Status of the DLX backend for GCC?

2008-01-01 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
Hi Nikolaos, On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Over the previous years, I had downloaded and used both a really archaic > gcc-1.09 DLX backend as well as the one you refer too. They are both in > a sad state of affairs, but the gcc-2.7.2.1 (AFAICR) was usable. do you have a workin

Re: Designs for better debug info in GCC

2008-01-01 Thread Richard Guenther
On Jan 1, 2008 12:39 AM, Frank Ch. Eigler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Richard Guenther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [...] I chose to ignore this problem and say we debug the optimized > > program, not the source as far as life ranges are concerned. [...] > > Yes, and this choice has a ce