piespy on freebsd 4.10

[Greg Lewis]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 07:25:56PM +0200, christian astrup bakke // chasm wrote:
> has anyone here successfully installed piespy (link further down) in a
> 4.10(-release) enviroment? it needs java, and a paragraph on the piespy page
> says:
> 
> "If you run PieSpy in a non-graphical environment (e.g. a Unix console that
> does not have access to an X server) you will need to pass the following
> command line parameter to java: -Djava.awt.headless=true. Note that PieSpy
> may not function properly on FreeBSD. This is because Java on FreeBSD
> handles floating point calculations incorrectly."
> 
> i indeed plan to use it from the console on my server. neither piespy og
> java has been installed at this point, because i'd like some feedback on it
> first.
> 
> so, what do you guys and girls think? is this "floating point calculations"
> thing still a problem?
> 
> link til piespy: http://www.jibble.org/piespy/

Firstly, this is better asked on freebsd-java, not freebsd-hackers.

In response to your question, both the 1.3 and 1.4 JDK implementations
have passed all the extensive floating point tests in the JCK compliance
suite.  The statement they made may have been true in the early days of
porting the JDK, but is currently without any factual basis.

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