On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 03:52:16AM -0800, Wes Peters wrote: > On Sunday 15 February 2004 12:46, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > > Alexandr Kovalenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Could you please explain me this? Result is fully reproduceable. Please > > > note, that the only difference is the output file name. Even resulting > > > files match bit-to-bit. [...] > > > > Definitely some kind of alignment problem, but it only shows up at > > some optimization levels and not others. > > I've tested the patch Dan mentioned before and the results were astonishing. > Running the flops.c 1.2 program in a loop, lengthening the environment string > by one byte each time, I get 8 successive runs of fast, then 8 successive > runs of slow, where fast and slow vary between 650 and 990 mflops. With the > patch, the performance is always 990, within a few percent. > > Should I commit this?
What effect does it have on non-i386 architectures? Kris
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