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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

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