From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 17 23:45:33 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 977EA37B401; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 23:45:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net (bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0AB043FAF; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 23:45:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0103.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.103] helo=mindspring.com) by bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18vBms-00041Z-00; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 23:45:30 -0800 Message-ID: <3E76CE0F.8FAA6AE3@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 23:43:11 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Schultz Cc: Ruslan Ermilov , current@FreeBSD.org, alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Don't upgrade your Alphas! References: <20030317161219.GA1429@sunbay.com> <200303150947.h2F9l5eQ028059@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030317164037.GB98100@sunbay.com> <20030318073019.GA10737@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a42f341de61baa556c1d230437a57e60df93caf27dac41a8fd350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Schultz wrote: > This is because floating point > support on Alpha is broken unless you specifically tell gcc to > unbreak it by specifying -mieee. Sounds like the ability to turn "-mieee" off at all, let alone making it the default, is bad? If so, why is that the way it is configured? > I'm hoping there's a better solution than > disabling support for NaNs in strtod(). Make "-mieee" on by default? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message