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From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
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Subject: Re: Any experience on tcl7.4/tk4.0 ?
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 13:53:54 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199506241723.DAA28701@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jun 25, 95 03:23:35 am
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> >> The FreeBSD port of tcl 7.3 has diffs for the fpmask and the rounding
> >> mode.  These diffs apparently still apply (FreeBSD certainly hasn't
> >> changed).  It also has diffs for configuring strtod().

> >The NetBSD bmaked version I ported to FreeBSD doesn't seem to have these. Try
> >leaving them out.

> The fpmask() call is certainly required.  The only uncertainty is whether
> tcl already has it.  NetBSD doesn't need it since all FPU exceptions are
> masked by default in NetBSD.

My apologies for confusing you.

I'm referring to any strtod() change. The fpmask and fpsetround calls are
in it.