<div dir="ltr">On 12 March 2013 16:48, Daniel Dunbar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel@zuster.org" target="_blank">daniel@zuster.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">The former mode is historically what the test suite did, the latter mode is substantially faster (and independent of bugs in the native CC).<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>Yes, I agree this is better for many cases, but not for all. Implementing RNG that is good enough for the tests' purposes, fast enough not to steal the benchmarks' hot spots and does not use target/library-specific code is not trivial. I think that, in this particular case, having bugs in GCC is far less problematic than assuming fixed outputs.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>I've tried USE_REFERENCE_OUTPUT := 0 on the Makefile, but the test.log still prints it as 1 (and fails).</div><div><br></div><div style>cheers,</div><div style>--renato</div></div></div>
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