[macstl-dev] gcc 3.3 on YellowDogLinux

[Michael LeBlanc]

On Apr 1, 2005, at 8:04 AM, Glen Low wrote:

> We'll have to change all the vector bool and pixel to __bool and 
> __pixel respectively (no fence required).

I did that in my copy.

>> It's OK by me to use 3.4, but my bosses want to avoid building 
>> another GCC.  I'll ask.
>
> Is this work for your company, SkyComputers? Embedded processors?

Yes.  Although they are techically "embedded", they run YDL out of the 
box.

>> Unfortunately it still traps at run-time.
>
> Need to determine where the trap happens. Does YDL (1) turn Java mode 
> on or off, (2) have denormal handlers? (if either Java mode is on OR 
> you don't have denormal handlers, then the problem lies somewhere 
> else. What kind of trap, which line of code etc.)

I have been trying test/benchmark and isolated the fault to the 
destructor of the "stdext" phase of each sub-benchmark.  Without that, 
it runs to the end.  Did I just comment out the Altivec test?