Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:22:44 -0400 From: Justin Hibbits <jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Horst_G=FCnther_Burkhardt_III?= <horst@sxemacs.org> Cc: freeBSD-CURRENT Mailing List <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: questions about 8.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <fd9cd3450907220622w5b7b7222r23f6152d276b177@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1248246423.8056.96.camel@horst-tla> References: <1248246423.8056.96.camel@horst-tla>
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On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:07 AM, Horst G=FCnther Burkhardt III<horst@sxemacs.org> wrote: > Ok. > > So, I heard it on the 'tubes that 8.0 is in BETA atm, and will rock > pretty damned hard. > > But, I have a few questions, being a PowerPC user, and also having some > disappointment with the state of things in 7.2 especially on this > platform. > > First, has libm finally had the log2 functions defined in the C99 spec > added? (this is an issue dating back to 2005, standards/83845 ) > > Second, I'm aware that altivec support is implemented in -CURRENT, as of > some months ago, will this be stable enough for release? I've been compiling everything with altivec for the past few months, with no problems, and I abuse the hell out of my system, so I can safely say that it's stable enough for release. Base won't have it enabled, but you can enable it for ports in make.conf. - Justin
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