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Date:      Fri, 28 Jul 2000 00:12:16 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Mark Abene <phiber@radicalmedia.com>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: floating point troubles...
Message-ID:  <14721.506.302306.465457@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000708052236.D22774@radicalmedia.com>
References:  <20000708040526.C22774@radicalmedia.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007080941070.66274-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> <20000708052236.D22774@radicalmedia.com>

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The problem is that libm is not being built with -mieee
Try the patch below & rebuild your libm.

Index: lib/msun/Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/lib/msun/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.23
diff -u -r1.23 Makefile
--- lib/msun/Makefile	1999/08/28 00:06:05	1.23
+++ lib/msun/Makefile	2000/07/28 03:57:21
@@ -45,11 +45,7 @@
 .PATH:	${.CURDIR)/alpha
 ARCH=	alpha
 ARCH_SRCS = s_copysign.S s_copysignf.S
-# XXX Comment from NetBSD/Alpha:
-# XXX LINT SIGFPEs in e_exp.c's strtod().  FP underflow/denorm software
-# handling is broken (doesn't exist!) on the Alpha port.
-# Stock gcc 2.7.2.1 doesn't understand these options.
-#CFLAGS += -mtrap-precision=i -mfp-trap-mode=su
+CFLAGS += -mtrap-precision=i -mfp-trap-mode=su
 .elif ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "i386"
 ARCH=	i387
 ARCH_PREFIX= ${ARCH}_


Even though it will produce slower code, I think we should be using
this by default.  Opinions?

Drew


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