From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Mar 24 9:46:16 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FA3937B401; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:46:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A115843FB1; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:46:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.8/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2OHjvAm055603; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:45:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h2OHjqbt055598; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:45:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:45:51 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" 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> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , alpha@freebsd.org, gallatin@cs.duke.edu, jdp@freebsd.org 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030321053255.GA67634@dragon.nuxi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-23.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 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