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Regehr: GCC 4.8 Breaks Broken SPEC 2006 Benchmarks

Regehr: GCC 4.8 Breaks Broken SPEC 2006 Benchmarks

Posted Mar 26, 2013 5:31 UTC (Tue) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
In reply to: Regehr: GCC 4.8 Breaks Broken SPEC 2006 Benchmarks by apoelstra
Parent article: Regehr: GCC 4.8 Breaks Broken SPEC 2006 Benchmarks

I think ifdefs would fall apart too quickly to be of much use.

Compiler warnings would too... If the compiler emits 22 "might be true" warnings, and 21 of them are spurious, what are the chances I'll catch the meaningful one? Knowing me, probably next to nil.


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