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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>,
	Archie Cobbs <archie@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: alpha/43567: strtod() core dumps
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On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 03:59:04PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> I'd like to see us build 2 FP libraries, one '-mieee' and one without,
> with the "compiler" selecting the appropriate library based on the
> presence of -mieee during linking - which is what Compaq CC does.
> This gives you a choice of fast and dodgy or slow and correct.

I'll support this.  You do the src/lib work, and I'll make GCC DTRT.

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