Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Thiemo Seufer wrote: >> >> >>> Alexander Graf wrote: >>> [snip] >>> >>>>> Is check_ops.sh not enough for debugging micro-ops? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Basically it should be. PowerPC branching can be (regex) b..rl. Honestly >>>> I did not know about this script though and as it was not in the >>>> makefile, it did not tell me that something wrong was going on. This >>>> check costs near no time and has to be passed in order to build >>>> successfully. >>>> >>>> So either check_ops should be fixed (not only brl) and put into the >>>> Makefile.target or a check like this is good to have. >>>> >>> Fixing check_ops is IMO preferable, OTOH I hope the whole problem goes >>> away with the new code generator which is in the works. >>> >> The code generated by that new code generator is substantially slower than >> what we have right now, so I am not so enthusiastic. >> > > I meant not qops but something Fabrice is working on. Which apparently has > about the same speed. > >
Either way I wouldn't mind having a working gcc4 version for the time being, including checks that it doesn't break too easily again. Alex
