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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
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Subject: Re: floating point exceptions 
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On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 00:05:23 MST, Brooks Davis wrote:

> > Is FreeBSD's behavior correct?  Why or why not?  You can use the included 
> > code snippet to verify that this occurs.
> 
> FreeBSD has traditionaly violated the IEEE FP standard in this regard.
> This is fixed in 5.0 and I think in 4.0-STABLE (though I can't remember
> what file this is in so I can't check.)

Huh?  I'm pretty sure you've got this backwards.  FreeBSD has
traditionally upheld the standard and we only recently decided to go
with the flow in 5.0.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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