critical floating point incompatibility

[Erik Trulsson]

On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:09:33AM -0800, Carl Shapiro wrote:
> On 12/20/07, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at optushome.com.au> wrote:
> > I believe this is an oversight.  See the thread beginning
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-November/037947.html
> 
> Thanks for the pointer into the -stable mailing list.
> 
> The incorrect precision control bits is a serious quality of life
> issue for those of us who care about consistent numerical computations
> and the backward compatibility of our FreeBSD object code.  Is there
> an active community of users who care about numerics on FreeBSD?

There are certainly people who care about numerics on FreeBSD.
Most of the floating-point related discussions seem to happen on the
freebsd-standards@  mailing list.  You could check the archives of that list.


> 
> At any rate, I searched the PR database for a bug related to the
> incorrect control word setting but came up empty handed.  If nothing
> has been filed to date I will go ahead and submit a PR.


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