[fpc-pascal] Default compiler options for shootout using fpc 2.2.0
Vincent Snijders
vsnijders at vodafonevast.nl
Sun Oct 5 11:35:17 CEST 2008
Jonas Maebe schreef:
>
> 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).
In fpc 2.2.0, a first release on the fixes_2_2 branch, do regvars
properly or not? Your answer seems to indicate they do, but that they
were not enabled by default (yet).
Vincent
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