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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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