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Re: cross compiling produces worse code

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From: John Romein
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 17:56
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rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman) writes:
: Please supply a specific test case, and by looking at the assembler code
: find and identify paticular places where the output is different.
: 
: We do not have a staff of people to do these things,
: so unless you do them, further investigation will not begin.

I think I found the problem.  The cross compiler did not use the same math
library so it linked with functions like sqrt() that did not use the floating
point hardware.
I am sorry that I oversaw this.

John
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