From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Mar 24 10:38: 1 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 655BD37B401; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 10:37:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9740843F3F; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 10:37:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2OIbtRv021720 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:37:56 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id h2OIbo713457; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:37:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15999.20606.848713.334572@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:37:50 -0500 (EST) To: John Polstra Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Don't upgrade your Alphas! In-Reply-To: <200303241830.h2OIUQix007424@vashon.polstra.com> References: <20030317161219.GA1429@sunbay.com> <200303181645.h2IGjcuG035185@vashon.polstra.com> <20030321053255.GA67634@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030324174551.GA55549@dragon.nuxi.com> <200303241830.h2OIUQix007424@vashon.polstra.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-22.9 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,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 John Polstra writes: > 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. :-) I think we'd also want it on for ports. IE, enabling -mieee in the KDE build saved me from some FPE's in konquerer when I was using an alpha desktop. So, I think that making it the default is probably the best. As long as somebody can turn it off with -mnoieee or something. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message