At Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:53:28 +0000 (GMT), dave wrote: > I tried setting GSL_IEEE_MODE='extended-precision' and the OpenBSD version > dumped core after printing an error message. > > gsl: fp-openbsd.c:41: ERROR: OpenBSD only supports default precision rounding > Default GSL error handler invoked. > Abort trap (core dumped) > > This also happened with GSL_IEEE_MODE='double-precision'. It appears that this > variable affects only rounding mode. It would be extremely handy if this > technique > could be used to switch between 80 bit temporary real (8087) math and 64 bit > xmm math > operations.
You can call the assembly instructions directly, details are in my book: http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/gccintro/gccintro_70.html -- Brian Gough _______________________________________________ Help-gsl mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gsl
