On 6/23/06, George Georgalis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 04:48:41PM -0700, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
>'-mieee'
> The Alpha architecture implements floating-point hardware
> optimized for maximum performance. It is mostly compliant with
> the IEEE floating point standard. However, for full compliance,
> software assistance is required. . . .
>
>So adding -mieee to CFLAGS in the Makefile seems to actually cure the
>problem of detecting Floating Point Exceptions.
I guess someone put it there expecting it to propagate out to man pages?
Man pages -- we don't need no steenkin' man pages. Certainly we don't
need them if we are GNU. Besides that, the point is that the -mieee
flag works in the older gcc but was not documented until a later gcc
version. And by the way I don't see any great difference between what
is in the man.page for gcc3.4.4 and the info page. Just a different
reading mechanism. I was looking at the info page because of the
misleading comment that more complete documentation might be found
there. Another GNU fallacy.
Did you try pkgsrc? Why not or where did you stop? ...would like to know.
Did not try pkgsrc because I decided that the startup effort would be
greater than compiling one program from source. Besides that I
couldn't figure out where to find pkgsrc repositories of programs
compiled for the Alpha CPU.
carl
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