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Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 09:41:12 +1100 (EST)
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sparc64/include floatingpoint.h
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On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, David O'Brien wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 07:32:01AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > >   Added files:
> > >     sys/sparc64/include  floatingpoint.h
> > >   Log:
> > >   Add this FreeBSD standard header.
> >
> > This should be replaced by the standard standard header <fenv.h> ASAP.
>
> It was needed for the Perl build.
> Maybe the Perl Guy(tm) can see about changing that.

It is only in contrib/perl5/unixish.h, which appears to have been
hacked for old versions of FreeBSD.  <floatingpoint.h> is only used
(at least in this file) to do an fpsetmask(0), which has been a no-op
since the default mask was changed to 0 before FreeBSD-4.0.

Bruce


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