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author | Craig Burley <burley@gcc.gnu.org> | 1999-04-03 16:12:24 -0500 |
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committer | Craig Burley <burley@gcc.gnu.org> | 1999-04-03 16:12:24 -0500 |
commit | d343abd2e8d39a39aa08396417b1d5f3067685c9 (patch) | |
tree | 69caf8a67bc929014eb98b7abc30c45f34eeb65b /gcc | |
parent | 264b1a9c8b6ec23ef30aa28805cbc43d083daf5d (diff) | |
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Update BUGS, NEWS derived files
From-SVN: r26164
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@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ via `http://egcs.cygnus.com/onlinedocs/g77_bugs.html'. Follow the port, build, and install `g77', see "Problems Installing" in `egcs/gcc/f/INSTALL'. - The following information was last updated on 1999-03-15: + The following information was last updated on 1999-04-03: * Automatic arrays possibly aren't working on HP-UX systems, at least in HP-UX version 10.20. Writing into them apparently causes @@ -141,19 +141,6 @@ port, build, and install `g77', see "Problems Installing" in 0.6 should solve most or all remaining problems (such as cross-compiling involving 64-bit machines). - * Maintainers of `gcc' report that the back end definitely has - "broken" support for `COMPLEX' types. Based on their input, it - seems many of the problems affect only the more-general facilities - for gcc's `__complex__' type, such as `__complex__ int' (where the - real and imaginary parts are integers) that GNU Fortran does not - use. - - Version 0.5.20 of `g77' works around this problem by not using the - back end's support for `COMPLEX'. The new option - `-fno-emulate-complex' avoids the work-around, reverting to using - the same "broken" mechanism as that used by versions of `g77' - prior to 0.5.20. - * `g77' currently inserts needless padding for things like `COMMON A,IPAD' where `A' is `CHARACTER*1' and `IPAD' is `INTEGER(KIND=1)' on machines like x86, because the back end insists that `IPAD' be @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ about previous `g77' versions up-to-date. the mainline, development version of `g77' within `egcs') is available at `http://egcs.cygnus.com/onlinedocs/g77_news.html'. - The following information was last updated on 1999-04-02: + The following information was last updated on 1999-04-03: In `egcs' 1.2 (versus 1.1.2): ============================= @@ -99,6 +99,10 @@ In `egcs' 1.2 (versus 1.1.2): corresponding *subsequent* function program unit disagrees with the reference concerning the type of the function. + * `-fno-emulate-complex' is now the default option. This should + result in improved performance of code that uses the `COMPLEX' + data type. + * The `-malign-double' option now reliably aligns *all* double-precision variables and arrays on Intel x86 targets. |