Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 13:11:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Malte Lance <malte.lance@gmx.net> To: griepent@wias-berlin.de Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floating point exceptions on i386 and FreeBSD-2.2.X Message-ID: <13786.45438.762966.929694@neuron.webmore.de> In-Reply-To: <199808180818.AA14374@hilbert.wias-berlin.de> References: <199808180818.AA14374@hilbert.wias-berlin.de>
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griepent@wias-berlin.de writes: > > Dear FreeBSD community! > > I have used FreeBSD for three years in desktop publishing > and I was always very satisfied with stability and performance > of the well-organized FreeBSD system. > But now I am disappointed because of difficulties coming up > in numerical and mathematical computations. > > As a mathematician I had thought, > that math should be one of the smaller problems for a computer ... > > But there occur so much serious floating point exceptions and > strange underflows! Can I trust any longer the libm of FreeBSD? > Most of my programs written in C use the Mesa library. > They run very well on other architectures like Alpha machines with DEC Unix, > Silicons with Irix and also i386 machines with Linux. > Using the same compiler gcc-2.7.2.1 under FreeBSD-2.2.X I had > always to compile libm, Mesa-2.6 libraries and my own programs > without any optimization flags to get partially executable code! > Man ... i really can not imagine why an intelligent person should blurb something like this: > It is a pity but sticking to Linux seems to be the only way > for me to get reliable numerical results. in the given context to a public list ??? Are you really a mathematician who can solve problems on his own as they arise or are you just Mr. "Linux does this better for me ..."-whining-basher ? I don't give any explanation nor solution to your whining-problem since Dave Bodenstab already did (btw his reply to you was excellent and let's you look like a little pussy). Malte. > > So long, > Jens Griepentrog > > griepent@wias-berlin.de > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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