On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Craig Berry wrote: > > On Monday, February 28, 2005, at 02:16PM, John E. Malmberg 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 have looked at it. I also see that I made an error when I merged in your large file patch, and dropped the $(flags) for a couple of the build cases. > 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. You will still need /IEEE=DENORM, as that may not be the default. Ok, that's 2 out of three issues solved. Thanks, -John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal Opinion Only
