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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Subject: Re: kern/38170: fpgetmask, fpsetmask yield strange results
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The following reply was made to PR kern/38170; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To: Andreas Haakh <ah@haakh.de>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/38170: fpgetmask, fpsetmask yield strange results
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 12:57:19 +1000 (EST)

 On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Andreas Haakh wrote:
 
 > From: "Bruce Evans" <bde@zeta.org.au>
 > > fpsetmask() is fixed in -current.  The complement of the mask (ANDed with
 > > the mask bitfield) was being returned.  The other routines seem to be OK.
 >
 > Is it already MFC'd or when will this happen?
 
 MFC scheduled after 4 weeks.
 
 > There should be a note in fpsetask(3) that FP_X_STK is reserved...
 
 It's read-only, but very unportable.  Most of <floatingpoint.h> and
 <ieeefp.h> hould be undocumented and replaced by the C99 feset*().
 There is nothing standard to replace fp{get,set}mask() since setting
 masks is unportable, so FreeBSD will need unportable extensions.
 
 Bruce
 

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