From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Apr 18 7: 5:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78C8837B90D for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 07:05:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jose@we.lc.ehu.es) Received: from we.lc.ehu.es (v-ger [158.227.6.179]) by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA05379; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 16:04:25 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <38FC6B65.B00D71B6@we.lc.ehu.es> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 16:04:21 +0200 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" Organization: Universidad del Pais Vasco - Dpto. de Electricidad y Electronica X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: es-ES, es, en-US, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: wc.bulte@chello.nl, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i386/17984: coredumps due to incorrect FP handling References: <56062.956055587@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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