Re: Infinite loop with GCC 4.3

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

2008/5/26 Karl Hammar <address@hidden>:
>> comment #60 sounds promising too. We'd have to have a small bit of
>> system dependent code, but it is localized, so I can live with it.
>
> David Monniaux discusses this problem on page 15-17 of [1].
>
> His recommondation is to skip using the x87 fpu and use the sse fpu
> instead. For this you don't need to add any code to the progran, but you
> have the problem of not supporting x86 cpus without sse fpu, and you
> have to specify target architecture.

People that know what machine they are running on could do this or are
running Gentoo could do this,  but I think that for the x87 hack is
less of a support headache.

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