On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:09:33AM -0800, Carl Shapiro wrote: > On 12/20/07, Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I believe this is an oversight. See the thread beginning > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-November/037947.html > > Thanks for the pointer into the -stable mailing list. > > The incorrect precision control bits is a serious quality of life > issue for those of us who care about consistent numerical computations > and the backward compatibility of our FreeBSD object code. Is there > an active community of users who care about numerics on FreeBSD?
There are certainly people who care about numerics on FreeBSD. Most of the floating-point related discussions seem to happen on the freebsd-standards@ mailing list. You could check the archives of that list. > > At any rate, I searched the PR database for a bug related to the > incorrect control word setting but came up empty handed. If nothing > has been filed to date I will go ahead and submit a PR. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
