Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:41:46 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Carl Shapiro <carl.shapiro@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: critical floating point incompatibility Message-ID: <20071221114146.GA49818@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <4dcb5abd0712210309kd91b52fla64f64e90dc8213@mail.gmail.com> References: <4dcb5abd0712192140w29fd39fh53b09fdd4d20e880@mail.gmail.com> <20071220093950.GA79196@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <4dcb5abd0712210309kd91b52fla64f64e90dc8213@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:09:33AM -0800, Carl Shapiro wrote: > On 12/20/07, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> wrote: > > I believe this is an oversight. See the thread beginning > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-November/037947.html > > Thanks for the pointer into the -stable mailing list. > > The incorrect precision control bits is a serious quality of life > issue for those of us who care about consistent numerical computations > and the backward compatibility of our FreeBSD object code. Is there > an active community of users who care about numerics on FreeBSD? There are certainly people who care about numerics on FreeBSD. Most of the floating-point related discussions seem to happen on the freebsd-standards@ mailing list. You could check the archives of that list. > > At any rate, I searched the PR database for a bug related to the > incorrect control word setting but came up empty handed. If nothing > has been filed to date I will go ahead and submit a PR. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20071221114146.GA49818>