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Re: [PATCH] Use -frounding-math for math testsuite

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.com> wrote:
>> I think we should revert this until we can sort it out, especially since
>> I anticipate that it will take quite some time to do so.
>
> This is sad - especially as Joseph reported in a bugzilla that the change
> helped to fix some bugs.
>
> Reference:
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10846
>
> But those numbers are really bad - I'll revert later.
>
> What should be done here?

If we can't help Dave fix the bug then we should:

* Revert the change.

* File a bug in bugzilla to track that SPARC does not work when
compiled with -frounding-math.

* Set the bug milestone to 2.16.

* Assign the bug to Dave.

* Continue to help Dave fix the bug.

Cheers,
Carlos.
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