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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 20:53:55 +0100
From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: gcc code generation problems
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On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 06:23:30AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> I've been trying to use FreeBSD 8-stable from a couple of weeks ago on
> a SunBlade 1500 to investigate some perl problems I'm seeing on
> Solaris and have bumped into different and more worrying problems on
> FreeBSD.
> 
> In particular, the test program used to determine the number of
> fraction bits in a double (slightly adapted variant attached) is

There was no attachment.

> getting the wrong answer.  (The command in the comment reflects
> the compilation flags used by perl).
> 

Marius