Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 22:13:11 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Joseph Koshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: andrsn@andrsn.Stanford.edu, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux-FreeBSD Q&A Message-ID: <991.900565991@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Jul 1998 18:42:13 PDT." <199807160142.SAA22565@hub.freebsd.org>
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> Numerical programs using floating point may sometimes show different > behaviour; FreeBSD does not by default mask off floating point exception > conditions like numeric underflow or loss of precision and will attempt to You might also reference fpsetmask(3) somewhere in this to give the Linux porter a chance to simply work-around the problem; all they need to do is call fpsetmask(0L) as the first thing in main() and they can get "the linux behavior." The rest looks fine to me! - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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