Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:02:59 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Carl Shapiro <carl.shapiro@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: critical floating point incompatibility Message-ID: <476C0DE3.4050806@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <4dcb5abd0712210309kd91b52fla64f64e90dc8213@mail.gmail.com> References: <4dcb5abd0712192140w29fd39fh53b09fdd4d20e880@mail.gmail.com> <20071220093950.GA79196@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <4dcb5abd0712210309kd91b52fla64f64e90dc8213@mail.gmail.com>
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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? > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" go ahead and submit the PR I'm guessing a combination of Peter Wemm and Bruce Evans would be able to decide on the right course of action. (CC'd)
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