From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Mar 25 6: 2:59 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 D8CA937B401; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 06:02:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70C7743F85; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 06:02:56 -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 h2PE2tRv021333 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Tue, 25 Mar 2003 09:02:55 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id h2PE2oL14820; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 09:02:50 -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: <16000.24970.493746.357815@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 09:02:50 -0500 (EST) To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: John Polstra , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Don't upgrade your Alphas! In-Reply-To: <20030325040057.GD12961@dragon.nuxi.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> <15999.20606.848713.334572@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20030325040057.GD12961@dragon.nuxi.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 David O'Brien writes: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 01:37:50PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > So, I think that making it the default is probably the best. As long > > as somebody can turn it off with -mnoieee or something. > > Unfortnately, that is hard to do (turning it off). :-( > Do I commit my patches if it means one cannot turn it off? > Darn. My opinion is that its rather important for users to be able to turn it off. Assuming we went the other route, and built the world and ports with -mieee, how many Makefile changes would be involved? Thanks, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message