From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Mar 24 10:30:31 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 8A60837B401; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 10:30:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from wall.polstra.com (wall-gw.polstra.com [206.213.73.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B8BB43FAF; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 10:30:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h2OIURJL051478 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Mon, 24 Mar 2003 10:30:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@vashon.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h2OIUQix007424; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 10:30:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 10:30:26 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200303241830.h2OIUQix007424@vashon.polstra.com> To: alpha@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Cc: obrien@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Don't upgrade your Alphas! In-Reply-To: <20030324174551.GA55549@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20030317161219.GA1429@sunbay.com> <200303181645.h2IGjcuG035185@vashon.polstra.com> <20030321053255.GA67634@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030324174551.GA55549@dragon.nuxi.com> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-19.6 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES 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 In article <20030324174551.GA55549@dragon.nuxi.com>, David O'Brien wrote: > > 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. Good question. :-) > 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) I think we just want -mieee. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message