Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 09:42:42 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Mark Abene <phiber@radicalmedia.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: floating point troubles... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007080941070.66274-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20000708040526.C22774@radicalmedia.com>
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On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Mark Abene wrote: > For what it's worth, I added a signal(SIGFPE, SIG_IGN) to the appropriate > place in the Smalltalk source, since the fpsetmask was having no effect. > Now, it builds successfully, but this just seems "wrong". Also, some of > the regression test results deviated from what was expected where floating > point was concerned. Try compiling the -mieee flag to gcc. For some programs, the alpha requires slightly stricter, slower floating point code to be generated so that unusual results (INFs, NaNs etc) can be generated by the kernel's floating point emulator. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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