Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 16:54:38 +0930 From: Matthew Thyer <Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au> To: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org, Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.net.au> Subject: Re: Oddities with the new binutils Message-ID: <393F4A36.2C4D580B@dsto.defence.gov.au> References: <39375E5D.A967720F@dsto.defence.gov.au> <20000603232557.C67024@dragon.nuxi.com> <20000607150244.A23666@cons.org>
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It may not be FP itself. In fact I have seen some other strange graphic corruption at home when running xplanet in the background and xanim. When the planet turns, the top 20 or so rows of the root window get corrupted with some of the image of the currently playing animation in xanim. I haven't mentioned this yet because I've only been running xplanet since post-binutils so I cant compare it with previous behaviour. It would appear to be an Xserver problem. The fact remains that I am seeing the xaos problem on two machines that are both using the SVGA server from XFree86 3.3.6 but with different video cards (one's a PII-266 with an S3 Trio64V+, the other a Celeron 300a with a 3dfx Velocity 100 AGP). I need to do more testing.... I have another -CURRENT machine with a recent XFree86 from before the new binutils so I will try displaying xaos on that Xserver. Sorry for the limited time I can spend on debugging this... I dont get any chance at work and the wife and kids limit my access to the home machine that has my source until after the kids go to bed. Martin Cracauer wrote: > > In <20000603232557.C67024@dragon.nuxi.com>, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 04:42:29PM +0930, Matthew Thyer wrote: > > > Three issues: > > > - floating point math doesn't seem to work properly: > > I don't have a -current machine I want to delete all ports from, but I > have a -current from yesterday, I compiled xaos on it and libpng, > which is the only dependency of xaos. That leave XFree as the only > non-recompiled thing in the chain. > > Works fine. > > > It could also be poorly written ASM code in the things you were running. > > The old Binutils let people write inconsistent and illegal ASM. > > xoas and png themself do not have assembler files. Xfree servers have > some, but not in floating point related things. > > Where is the information that this is a floating-point problem from? > > Matthew, do you possibly use a custom gcc from /usr/local/bin and the > native assembler or vice versa? > > Martin > -- > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ > BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/ -- Matthew Thyer Phone: +61 8 8259 7249 Corporate Information Systems Fax: +61 8 8259 5537 Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Salisbury PO Box 1500 Salisbury South Australia 5108 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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