DMD-0.151 regressions

Stewart Gordon smjg_1998 at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 6 11:17:07 PDT 2006


Thomas Kuehne wrote:
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> Stewart Gordon schrieb am 2006-04-06:
>> There seems to have been a surge of error results between 0.138 and 
>> 0.144 - weird.  The regression report for 0.138 doesn't show any such 
>> surge.  Have the numbers become mixed up?
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> 0.138 introduced "-fPIC"
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> (neither documented in the changelog nor in DMD's help message, but
> listed on http://www.digitalmars.com/d/html/d/dcompiler.html)
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I see.  But what does "position independent code" mean?

> The numbers are correct - compare the summaries from
> http://dstress.kuehne.cn/www/dmd-0.137.html and
> http://dstress.kuehne.cn/www/dmd-0.138.html

Looking at 0.138, the lowest number of passes is 1299, but you've taken 
1304 as the figure for that version.  Time to investigate the formula....

Stewart.

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