Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 06:46:01 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha/43567: strtod() core dumps Message-ID: <20021002204601.GI495@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20021002161353.GA80337@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200210012021.g91KL1Ec032894@beast.freebsd.org> <15770.1923.354337.452249@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20021002055904.GG495@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <20021002161353.GA80337@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On 2002-Oct-02 09:13:53 -0700, David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: > > >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. Yes, I do realize I didn't include the patches... Unless I've totally misunderstood gcc's SPECS file, the gcc bit is (or should be) easy (gcc already does this sort of thing for -p and -pg). The src/lib work isn't... I'll have a look into it, but can't offer a quick result - probably post 5.0-RELEASE. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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