Greetings! So should this be filed as a bug, and if so, against which package?
Take care, Tyson Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed October 18 2006 14:03, Falk Hueffner wrote: > > Camm Maguire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Casting the smallest denormalized shortfloat to a double in a function > > > argument is destroying the number in the callee. Do you know of a > > > workaround? > > > > What kind of machine is this on? Might also be a kernel bug. Do you > > have a stand-alone testcase? > > Actually, that's a really good point. > > Upon reading it, I recalled discovering, and posting to this list a while > ago, > that the kernel's denormalized number fixup for EV56 and earlier CPUs had > been broken in later kernels. > > (see the thread "Kernel IEEE Math Completion (everything is zeroed!?!)" > at "http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2006/06/";) > > That long and the short is that we figured out that it was busted somewhere > between 2.4.27 and 2.6.16, but no solutions were purposed. > > Later! -T > > -- > Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- MC-) > Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, > Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, > GnuPG Key ID# 0xF7666BFF London, Ontario, Canada -- Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
