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Date:      Mon, 11 Feb 2002 09:41:12 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sparc64/include floatingpoint.h
Message-ID:  <20020211093129.I9541-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020210134125.A39750@dragon.nuxi.com>

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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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