On Monday, February 28, 2005, at 02:16PM, John E. Malmberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >If you chose IEEE float, the build scripts do not set everything needed to >build in IEEE floating point mode. Yes, they do, but you don't need to choose anything. IEEE is the default on Alpha (and now Itanium) in Perl 5.8.0 and later. See the section entitled "Floating Point Considerations" in README.vms. I suppose it's possible we don't properly handle: $ @configure -"Duseieee" since that's the default behavior (and thus unnecessary) and possibly wasn't tested. I do vaguely remember testing to make sure you can disable it via: $ @configure -"Uuseieee" which will revert to the compiler default. I believe the compiler flags we add for IEEE are redundant on Itanium, but it's easier to minimize the number of differences.
