Improvements to the optimisation tests and fixes for bug #14173, bug #14174, bug #14175, bug #14176, bug #14177, bug #14182.
The bugs were reported by Jack Howarth (https://gna.org/users/jhowarth) and Seb (https://gna.org/users/semor).
The architecture info and optimisation stats for a number of systems have been added to the file for reference.
Authored by: bugman 2009-09-02
Parent: [r9425]
Child: [r9427]
