[fpc-pascal] Default compiler options for shootout using fpc 2.2.0

Jonas Maebe jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be
Sun Oct 5 11:32:55 CEST 2008


On 05 Oct 2008, at 11:09, Vincent Snijders wrote:

> If I look at http://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/tags/release_2_2_0/compiler/x86_64/cpuinfo.pas?view=markup 
>  it seems that in fpc 2.2.0 regvars are not enabled. Why not?

Because they didn't work properly with x86_64 at first. It was fixed  
later, but enabling them by default is not a fix so it was not merged  
to the fixes branch (and since you can explicitly enable them using - 
Ooregvar, it's even less required to merge this change back).


Jonas



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