Thus spake Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > David Schultz wrote: > > This is because floating point > > support on Alpha is broken unless you specifically tell gcc to > > unbreak it by specifying -mieee. > > Sounds like the ability to turn "-mieee" off at all, let alone > making it the default, is bad? If so, why is that the way it > is configured? > > > I'm hoping there's a better solution than > > disabling support for NaNs in strtod(). > > Make "-mieee" on by default?
Well, I was secretly hoping I'd get that answer from the Powers That Be, but I think it's off by default on purpose for efficiency reasons. That would imply that I need to come up with a workaround that involves not generating NaN values, *period*. Sigh. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
