I wrote the original email after a week that went something like this. Day #1: Hummm, let's browse the web. Oh, Konqueor SIGFPEs. A good portion of the rest of the day spent recompiling. Day #2: Hummm, let's import an Excel spreadsheet. Oh, KSpread SIGFPEs. A good portion of the rest of the day spent recompiling. Day #3: Hummm, let's create a presentation. Oh, KPresenter SIGFPEs. A good portion of the rest of the day spent recompiling. Day #4: Hummm, let's listen to some music. Oh, mpg321 SIGFPEs. Hummm, let's view that video. Oh, Xine SIGFPEs. etc...
By the term default, I was referring to the 95% (probably more like 99%) of the (11858) Debian packages that you won't be using to perform your 30 day numerical simulations. The user/desktop applications. If you guys have figured out that ATLAS/BLAS, LAPACK, etc, runs fine without -mieee, that's fine by me. In my books those apps/libs are all highly specialized. I expect the package maintainers to use non-default compilation flags (i.e. to specify things like -O6 *grin*, -fstrict-aliasing, and not things like -mieee). So, I ask again, could we make -mieee the default (i.e. applying it to the 99% of the apps where optimization means specifying -O3 and not -g)? -T PS: As was mentioned earlier, isn't the point of not using -mieee kind of irrelevant anyway, as modern Alapha architectures (i.e. 21264 [ev6] and later) aren't slowed down by imprecise exception handling anyway (trapb instructions are simply dropped)? -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8 London, Ontario, Canada
