Uros Bizjak <ubiz...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Mike Stump <mikest...@comcast.net> wrote: > >>> Please note that we set >>> -mieee flag to compile .go files from library and also we add this >>> flag to default testsuite compile flags. >> >>> >> Ick, I think this patch might be expedient, but, wrong. Ian will have to >> think about it and decide. > > This is something I come up with after a lot of staring into build system: > > 2011-07-06 Uros Bizjak <ubiz...@gmail.com> > > * mt-alphaieee (GOCFLAGS_FOR_TARGET): Add -mieee. > > This patch by itself does not fix go testsuite failures, although the > library is now OK. Additional patch is needed to pass GOCFLAGS to the > compiler when checking the package. I will submit it separately. > > Tested on alphaev68-pc-linux-gnu. OK for mainline? > > Uros. > > Index: config/mt-alphaieee > =================================================================== > --- config/mt-alphaieee (revision 175904) > +++ config/mt-alphaieee (working copy) > @@ -1,2 +1,3 @@ > CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET += -mieee > CXXFLAGS_FOR_TARGET += -mieee > +GOCFLAGS_FOR_TARGET += -mieee
This seems like a reasonable patch to me, but technically speaking it is incomplete. Go should have IEEE floating point behaviour by default. I believe Java is the same. Ideally there would be a target-independent way for a frontend to request this mode by default. It's a little bit odd because as far as I know every other backend does default to proper IEEE arithmetic, and only deviates when using -ffast-math or equivalent. Anyhow, it's hard for me to care all that much about the Alpha, so I will approve this patch. It's clearly better than the current situation, and it follows what other languages are doing. Thanks. Ian
