Remaining machine status updates for 2.19

[Allan McRae]

On 04/02/14 10:20, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Feb 2014, Allan McRae wrote:
> 
>> The two flagged with a * [ARM, PowerPC (soft-float)] both have had their
>> test failures noted in the "Known issues" section, so we know they have
>> been run, just not the compiler/linker versions used.  Others have had
>> ULP updates done, but nothing recorded at all.
> 
> As I said in <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-01/msg00340.html>, 
> I don't think this is a sensible organization of the release page - I 
> think there should be just one status section for each architecture.

That seems reasonable - I missed that message.  Feel free to just record
the information there.  But we still need some information on the
compiler used.

> ARM, MIPS and PowerPC soft-float have all been tested using GCC 4.7 branch 
> (with various libgcc patches as previously posted and in some cases 
> committed to GCC trunk - IBM long double for powerpc, Thomas's fp-bit NaN 
> fixes for MIPS) together with git binutils.  I don't have specific 
> checkout dates.

Adding notes that various math failures are expected without a patched
gcc, and even a pointer to the patches, would be useful.

Allan