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Date:      Tue, 27 Jun 2000 08:25:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Default (x86) floating point precision
Message-ID:  <200006271525.IAA59630@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1000627055606.25178B-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> from Daniel Eischen at "Jun 27, 2000 06:09:02 am"

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Daniel Eischen wrote:
> 
> Oddly, this causes problems with GNAT (Ada is a high level language)
> because it wants/expects 64-bit extended precision.  It seems as if
> GNAT for linux-i386 also uses 64-bit extended precision.  The only
> other GNAT i386 platform that doesn't use 64-bit precision is NT.
> 
> So is the above comment still valid?
> 

Does GNAT use the math library in /usr/lib?  I've been testing
our math library against UCBTEST, and there appear to be some
pecularities.  I need to dig deeper to understand all the info
produced by UCBTEST.  The point of this note is that turning on
64-bit extended precision in GNAT might be compromised by libm.a.

-- 
Steve


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