Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 16:04:21 +0200 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: wc.bulte@chello.nl, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i386/17984: coredumps due to incorrect FP handling Message-ID: <38FC6B65.B00D71B6@we.lc.ehu.es> References: <56062.956055587@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
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Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 19:19:47 +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > It does IMO, because it definitely fixes a bug for a lot of RELENG_3 > > users who cannot or don't want to go to 4.0 at this point in time. > > My understanding is that this doesn't fix a bug at all. It simply > relaxes restrictions previously placed on badly written software. > Sheldon, IMHO this PR should be reopened and assigned to bde or cracauer (bde submitted the changes to FP handling and cracauer committed them), asking for a MFC to RELENG_3. The acroread4 issue is important enough, and probably other applications (badly written, indeed) are affected. Also I think that RELENG_3 should not be considered "dead" before the last release off that branch (3.5?). Saludos, -- JMA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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