On 02/09/2018 11:30 AM, Bas Vermeulen wrote:
mator on #debian-ports compiled gcc-7 for me with the attached patch. With the resulting gcc, I compiled glibc and got a library I can use sqrtf without running into an illegal instruction exception. Would it be possible to get this applied by default? The resulting binaries work on e6500, and ought to work on all supported CPUs for the ppc64 port.
This is something that needs to be discussed. A single user alone shouldn't warrant such major change in a port. You always have to keep in mind that changing the default compiler options also has potential impact on the performance on more modern ppc64 systems like Apple Macintosh. So, while I'm generally not against such a change, I would like to hear some voices first. Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913