Re: HEADS UP: Don't upgrade your Alphas!

2003-03-18 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: David Schultz wrote: This is because floating point support on Alpha is broken unless you specifically tell gcc to unbreak it by specifying -mieee. Sounds like the ability to turn -mieee off at all, let alone making it the default, is bad? If

Re: HEADS UP: Don't upgrade your Alphas!

2003-03-18 Thread Andrew Gallatin
David Schultz writes: Thus spake Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: David Schultz wrote: This is because floating point support on Alpha is broken unless you specifically tell gcc to unbreak it by specifying -mieee. Sounds like the ability to turn -mieee off at all, let

Re: HEADS UP: Don't upgrade your Alphas!

2003-03-17 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
Yes, as I have suspected, the gdtoa change is responsible for a breakage. libc corresponding to this lib/libc works: cvs -q up -P -d -D'2003/03/12 20:20:00' : Using /home/ru/w/f/usr.bin/awk/nawk nawk... This version, together with contrib/gdtoa, doesn't: cvs -q up -P -d

Re: HEADS UP: Don't upgrade your Alphas!

2003-03-17 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 06:40:37PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: Yes, as I have suspected, the gdtoa change is responsible for a breakage. libc corresponding to this lib/libc works: cvs -q up -P -d -D'2003/03/12 20:20:00' : Using /home/ru/w/f/usr.bin/awk/nawk nawk... This version,

Re: HEADS UP: Don't upgrade your Alphas!

2003-03-17 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 06:43:11PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 06:40:37PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: Yes, as I have suspected, the gdtoa change is responsible for a breakage. libc corresponding to this lib/libc works: cvs -q up -P -d -D'2003/03/12

Re: HEADS UP: Don't upgrade your Alphas!

2003-03-17 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Ruslan Ermilov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hold off upgrading your Alphas for a moment. Something broke libc recently that results in (at least) floating point exceptions from awk(1) (this is not related to today's awk upgrade). I've been able to reproduce this on beast.freebsd.org by

Re: HEADS UP: Don't upgrade your Alphas!

2003-03-17 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 02:12:31PM -0800, David Schultz wrote: Thus spake Ruslan Ermilov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hold off upgrading your Alphas for a moment. Something broke libc recently that results in (at least) floating point exceptions from awk(1) (this is not related to today's awk

Re: HEADS UP: Don't upgrade your Alphas!

2003-03-17 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Ruslan Ermilov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes, as I have suspected, the gdtoa change is responsible for a breakage. libc corresponding to this lib/libc works: cvs -q up -P -d -D'2003/03/12 20:20:00' : Using /home/ru/w/f/usr.bin/awk/nawk nawk... This version, together with

Re: HEADS UP: Don't upgrade your Alphas!

2003-03-17 Thread Terry Lambert
David Schultz wrote: This is because floating point support on Alpha is broken unless you specifically tell gcc to unbreak it by specifying -mieee. Sounds like the ability to turn -mieee off at all, let alone making it the default, is bad? If so, why is that the way it is configured? I'm