Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:45:51 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: alpha@freebsd.org, gallatin@cs.duke.edu, jdp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Don't upgrade your Alphas! Message-ID: <20030324174551.GA55549@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20030321053255.GA67634@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20030317161219.GA1429@sunbay.com> <3E76CE0F.8FAA6AE3@mindspring.com> <20030318080132.GB10867@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <15991.9122.826678.673067@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200303181645.h2IGjcuG035185@vashon.polstra.com> <20030321053255.GA67634@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:32:55PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 08:45:38AM -0800, John Polstra wrote: > > In article <15991.9122.826678.673067@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>, > > Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> wrote: > > > > > > FWIW, I think -mieee should be on by default. If anybody cared about > > > speed, they'd use the compaq compiler or a P4. > > > > I agree! The lack of -mieee has nailed me on several occasions. > > "Fast but broken" is a lousy default. > > I was already convensed when Drew said to change it, after you saying it > too I'm booting my alpha to start hacking. :-) I have a mostly ready patch to make -mieee the default. But I just wanted to double check that we really want this, and not just adding -mieee to CFLAGS for /usr/src. Also do we want -mieee-with-inexact instead of -mieee? I'm not enough of an FP guy to totally grasp the differences. (see http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.2.2/gcc/DEC-Alpha-Options.html#DEC%20Alpha%20Options) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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