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Date:      Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:37:50 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: Don't upgrade your Alphas!
Message-ID:  <15999.20606.848713.334572@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200303241830.h2OIUQix007424@vashon.polstra.com>
References:  <20030317161219.GA1429@sunbay.com> <200303181645.h2IGjcuG035185@vashon.polstra.com> <20030321053255.GA67634@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030324174551.GA55549@dragon.nuxi.com> <200303241830.h2OIUQix007424@vashon.polstra.com>

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John Polstra writes:
 > In article <20030324174551.GA55549@dragon.nuxi.com>,
 > David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
 > > 
 > > I have a mostly ready patch to make -mieee the default.  But I just
 > > wanted to double check that we really want this, and not just adding
 > > -mieee to CFLAGS for /usr/src.
 > 
 > Good question. :-)

I think we'd also want it on for ports.  IE, enabling -mieee in the
KDE build saved me from some FPE's in konquerer when I was using an alpha
desktop.  

So, I think that making it the default is probably the best.  As long
as somebody can turn it off with -mnoieee or something.

Drew


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