Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1997 10:02:30 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> Cc: Matthew Thyer <Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xlock: caught signal 8 while running galaxy mode. Message-ID: <22019.875898150@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Oct 1997 17:54:33 %2B0200." <19971003175433.64822@cons.org>
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> I tried to convince people that FreeBSD hurts itself here, and the > dying screensavers are my primary example how this can hurt users. The > solution was to tell the port maintainers to switch FP mode for their > ports, which haven't happend for any port, as far as I know. > > There are bugs in our gcc that make relying on FP exceptions handled > right dangerous and Bruce Evans felt it is better to through the > signal, so that people get aware of the problem. > > With all respect to Bruce, I'm still conviced that we should switch to > default to set exceptional values and not signal the process. Our gcc > isn't that much worse than NetBSD's and Linux and those systems > obviously didn't get into trouble, at least not my my applications. You're not alone in this point of view, but even several of us arguing for years with Bruce on this issue has not been enough to sway him from the point of view that purity exceeds the value of functionality here. :-) Jordan
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