On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 09:40:34PM -0800, Carl Shapiro wrote: >The default setting of the x87 floating point control word on the i386 >port is 0x127F. Among other things, this value sets the precision >control to double precision. The default setting of the x87 floating >point control word on the AMD64 is 0x37F. ... >It seems clear that the right thing to do is to set the floating point >environment to the i386 default for i386 binaries. Is the current >behavior intended?
I believe this is an oversight. See the thread beginning http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-November/037947.html -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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