Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 05:09:37 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, sparc@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fpsetmask on sparc64 Message-ID: <3E216911.B7AFC39F@mindspring.com> References: <20030112031626.GA15783@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030112015221.G212@locore.ca> <3E212670.41627B9F@mindspring.com> <20030112032908.H212@locore.ca>
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Jake Burkholder wrote: > > Isn't that really a lame excuse? Shouldn't > > > > #ifdef __FreeBSD__ > > > > be enough to make code compile on all FreeBSD platforms? > > I don't know, why don't you try it. I understand the snide reply. My point was that if FreeBSD had platform differences, it should hide them from user space applications: if it's going to be as hard to port to FreeBSD-alpha from FreeBSD-i386, then you might as well spend your time on a higher margin platform. Apparently, Solaris supports fpsetmask(3C) in SVR4 derived Solaris on SPARC, which means that this is not an Intel-specific feature, and therefore it's not possible to justify it being an Intel-specific feature in FreeBSD. In the absolute worst case, it should be stubbed out, and complain, on SPARC and Alpha, if it isn't made to work. Solaris man page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fpsetmask&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=SunOS+5.8&format=html -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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