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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

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