Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:41:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, dfr@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha machdep.c sys_machdep.c src/sys/alpha/include alpha_cpu.h fpu.h ieeefp.h sysarch.h src/lib/libc/alpha SYS.h src/lib/libc/alpha/gen Makefile.inc fpgetmask.c fpgetround.c fpgetsticky.c fpsetmask.c fpsetround.c ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9812231332180.35745-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199812231327.AAA19972@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Bruce Evans wrote: > > Log: > > Implement fpsetmask() and other fp*() functions. Programs should use > > > > #include <ieeefp.h> > > > > to access these functions instead of the i386 specific > > > > #include <machine/floatingpoint.h> > > Applications should use the documented interface, which is > > #include <floatingpoint.h> > > We seem to have obtained this interface from Sun. AltaVista finds many > hits on <floatingpoint.h> in SunOS and Solaris man pages, e.g., > > http://www.sees.bangor.ac.uk/~bill/man/intro3.html > > It goes with <sys/ieeefp.h>, which we don't have (we had it in > FreeBSD.1.x, but I moved it to <machine/ieeefp.h> because it was > i386-specific :-). > > This interface should be superseded by the C9x <fenv.h> interface. I was following the NetBSD naming. If there is a standard interface to use this then then we should follow it and maybe deprecate ieeefp.h/floatingpoint.h or -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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