Re: Should -mieee-fp equal fpsetmask(0) to avoid SIGFPE on FreeB

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 05-Jan-00 Dan Nelson wrote:
>  Aah, but we wouldn't have found the bug if FreeBSD hadn't caught it
>  I prefer to trap by default.  The very few programs that require
>  IEEE
>  conformance can call fpsetmask() themselves.

Isn't it really a POLA issue?

It affects people that port code because if the way FreeBSD works is
non standard you have to patch...

ie for just about any Linux app which does FPU stuff :)

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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