Greetings, and thanks! This is in now in Version_2_6_8pre. (more extensive cleanups hopfully forthcoming in 2.7)
Take care, Waldek Hebisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have now found reason for wrong results on Intel Solaris 10. > Namely, gcl compiled some floating point functions assuming > that the machine is big endian. > > So, one got: > > >(floor 8.5) > > 0 > 8.5 > > The code to do conversion looks brittle -- it uses unions to > do "type convesion", which probably violates C aliasing rules. > Also setting parametrs in system specific configuration files > does not look like best method (2.7.0 apparently uses different > method to determine if the machine is big endian). > > So good fix would probably clean the gcl code a little. However, > below is almost minimal patch in the style used in 2.6.8. It > solves the 'floor' problems -- in fact it seems that when this > patch is applied there is no regression in Axiom compared to > Linux. > > --- gcl/h/solaris-i386.h Thu Jul 12 22:30:08 2007 > +++ gcl_m/h/solaris-i386.h Fri Jul 13 22:19:10 2007 > @@ -1,3 +1,6 @@ > +#define I386 > +#define LITTLE_END > + > #define ElfW(a) Elf32_ ## a > #if !defined(HAVE_LIBBFD) && !defined(USE_DLOPEN) > #define __ELF_NATIVE_CLASS 32 > > > -- > Waldek Hebisch > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > Axiom-developer mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer > > > -- Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah _______________________________________________ Gcl-devel mailing list Gcl-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel
