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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 21:32:55 -0800
From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc: alpha@freebsd.org, gallatin@cs.duke.edu
Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Don't upgrade your Alphas!
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On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 08:45:38AM -0800, John Polstra wrote:
> In article <15991.9122.826678.673067@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>,
> Andrew Gallatin  <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > FWIW, I think -mieee should be on by default.  If anybody cared about
> > speed, they'd use the compaq compiler or a P4.
> 
> I agree!  The lack of -mieee has nailed me on several occasions.
> "Fast but broken" is a lousy default.

I was already convensed when Drew said to change it, after you saying it
too I'm booting my alpha to start hacking. :-)

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