Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 07:11:23 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gcc 4.3: when will it become standard compiler? Message-ID: <20090109151123.GA97988@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20090109084908.GA76970@keltia.freenix.fr> References: <49668763.8020705@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20090109002133.GA92874@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20090109084908.GA76970@keltia.freenix.fr>
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On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 09:49:11AM +0100, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Steve Kargl: > > Probably not for a very long time. gcc 4.3 requires both GMP and > > MPFR libraries. Neither library is in src. > > I do not know what MPFR is (something about FP, right?) but I wonder at why > GMP could be needed by a compiler... > http://www.mpfr.org/ The MPFR library is a C library for multiple-precision floating-point computations with correct rounding. It's used for constant folding. -- Steve
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