Many thanks for the update Mark. I'll give it a run round the block over the next few days. Do we have a timeline for the glibc support ?
Regards, Dick Waite Mobile: +49 171 8393 769 -------------------------- Sent using BlackBerry ----- Original Message ----- From: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Tue Apr 21 17:48:13 2009 Subject: Re: SLES11 - gcc 4.3.2 or 4.3.3 >>> On 4/21/2009 at 9:45 AM, "Waite, Dick" <[email protected]> wrote: > Grand Day, > > To those grand people running SLE11 on zLinux. I'm showing gcc > at 4.3.2, which means no support for the new z10 instructions and the > decimal goodies. I'm being told, SLE 11.0 was shipped with gcc 4.3.3 > which does have all the goodies... There is support for the new z10 instructions and for decimal floating point in the gcc backend. The 4.3.3 version wasn't ready in time, so those features were back-ported to 4.3.2. The downside, however, is that gilbc doesn't support the DFP hardware. So, that means things like the math functions (sin, cos, etc.) won't use the new DFP hardware. This is certainly easy enough to test: gcc -march=z10 helloworld.c Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
