From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Jul 8 1:39:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-11.mail.demon.net (finch-post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B329137BF16 for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 01:39:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by finch-post-11.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13Aq8d-000OKg-0B; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 08:39:04 +0000 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA30597; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 09:39:24 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 09:42:42 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Mark Abene Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: floating point troubles... In-Reply-To: <20000708040526.C22774@radicalmedia.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Mark Abene wrote: > For what it's worth, I added a signal(SIGFPE, SIG_IGN) to the appropriate > place in the Smalltalk source, since the fpsetmask was having no effect. > Now, it builds successfully, but this just seems "wrong". Also, some of > the regression test results deviated from what was expected where floating > point was concerned. Try compiling the -mieee flag to gcc. For some programs, the alpha requires slightly stricter, slower floating point code to be generated so that unusual results (INFs, NaNs etc) can be generated by the kernel's floating point emulator. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message