Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 15:02:45 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Matthew Thyer <Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.net.au> Subject: Re: Oddities with the new binutils Message-ID: <20000607150244.A23666@cons.org> In-Reply-To: <20000603232557.C67024@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 11:25:57PM -0700 References: <39375E5D.A967720F@dsto.defence.gov.au> <20000603232557.C67024@dragon.nuxi.com>
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In <20000603232557.C67024@dragon.nuxi.com>, David O'Brien wrote: > On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 04:42:29PM +0930, Matthew Thyer wrote: > > Three issues: > > - floating point math doesn't seem to work properly: I don't have a -current machine I want to delete all ports from, but I have a -current from yesterday, I compiled xaos on it and libpng, which is the only dependency of xaos. That leave XFree as the only non-recompiled thing in the chain. Works fine. > It could also be poorly written ASM code in the things you were running. > The old Binutils let people write inconsistent and illegal ASM. xoas and png themself do not have assembler files. Xfree servers have some, but not in floating point related things. Where is the information that this is a floating-point problem from? Matthew, do you possibly use a custom gcc from /usr/local/bin and the native assembler or vice versa? Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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