Re: [Announcement] New Project: ASIS for GNAT

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org>]

rolf.ebert_nospam_@gmx.net (Rolf Ebert) writes:

> I ran gcc 3.3.3 and 3.4 prereleases on the ACATS test suite at several
> optimization levels on Linux and Windows during the last few weeks. 
> As I cannot attach a pdf or Excel file here, I am willing to send the
> summary sheet to anybody who is interested.
> 
> In short: the 3.4 prereleases are considerably better than the 3.3.3
> release.  The number of failures dropped from 24 to 7 (Linux) or 5
> (Windows) out of more than 2300 test files.  The remaining 7 errors on
> Linux are all related to the complex calculation library and don't
> show up on Windows.  The number of failures is stable at -O0 to -O2. 
> Only further optimizations and inlining (-O3, -gnatN,
> -funroll-all-loop, -finline-functions) trigger additional failures.


Thank you for these data points.  It has been my experience with 3.15p
that -gnatVa tends to trigger ICE's quite often.  As I find the
additional checks valuable, I would suggest that running the ACATS
tests with -gnatVa (and possibly -gnatwa, too) might be worthwhile.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.