On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Michael Hudson-Doyle
<michael.hud...@linaro.org> wrote:
> Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com> writes:
>
>> The bug report http://golang.org/issue/7074 shows that math.Log2(1)
>> produces the wrong result on Aarch64, because the Go math package is
>> compiled to use a fused multiply-add instruction.  This patch to the
>> libgo configure script will use -ffp-contract=off when compiling the
>> math package on processors other than x86.  Bootstrapped and ran Go
>> testsuite on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, not that that tests much.
>> Committed to mainline.
>
> Thanks for this!  If you are willing to go into battle enough to argue
> that libgcc should also be compiled with -ffp-contract=off (I did not
> have the stomach for that fight) then we'll be down to 1 check-go
> failure on aarch64 (which is peano -- due to the absence of
> split/copyable stacks and should probably xfail).

Hmmm, what is it that fails with libgcc?  Is there a bug report for
it?

I agree that peano is likely to fail without split stacks.

Ian

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