[ILUG] new gcccpuopt available

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 17:29:29 +0100
  | From: "Kieran.Tully AT acm.org" <kieran.tully at gmail.com>
  | 
  | On 04/06/05, Brian Foster <blf at blf.utvinternet.ie> wrote:
  |  > apologies if this is fixed in v0.4, but in in v0.3,
  |  > besides the error which caused Simon's problem,
  |  > there is the curious belief that expr(1) does FP
  |  > (floating point) math, or at least FP comparisons.
  | 
  | No there isn't.
  | sed is used to manipulate gcc_version so that
  | FP ordering is respected by the lexicographic
  | comparison.

 YES there is.  in v0.3, there is a comment before
 the sed(1) saying:

    #manipulate version so can do floating point comparisons

 ergo, there is what I said:  a “curious belief”.
 the comment proves that at one time, someone did
 think something — presumably expr(1) — did FP.

 does this matter?  Yes!  a casual reader of the
 script could easily be mislead.  comments matter.

 please note I _never_ said anything was functionally
 broken!

cheers!
	-blf-
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