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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:44:08 +1100 (EST)
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man3 Makefile src/lib/libc/alpha/gen
 Makefile.inc fpsetsticky.c src/lib/libc/amd64/gen Makefile.inc    
 fpsetsticky.c src/lib/libc/powerpc/gen Makefile.inc fpsetsticky.c     
 src/lib/libc/softfloat Makefile.inc src/lib/libc/sparc64/gen ...
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On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, David Schultz wrote:

> ...
>  Log:
>  Remove fpsetsticky().  This was added for SysV compatibility, but due
>  to mistakes from day 1, it has always had semantics inconsistent with
>  SVR4 and its successors.  In particular, given argument M:
> ...
>  There is no way to fix fpsetsticky() to DTRT for both old FreeBSD apps
>  and apps ported from other operating systems, so the best approach
>  seems to be to kill the function and fix any apps that break.  I
> ...
>  PR:             75862
>  Suggested by:   bde

Thanks.

Bruce