Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!sirius.physik.fu-berlin.DE!not-for-mail
From: graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Packages on a 386?
Date: 18 Aug 1995 08:26:50 GMT
Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin
Lines: 36
Message-ID: <411isa$m7v@fu-berlin.de>
References: <3vv184$qou@cronkite.cisco.com> <40pb71$jut@cronkite.cisco.com> <DDE4yM.9G1@theatre.pandora.sax.de> <4kAPL1W00YUpA15HMG@andrew.cmu.edu> <4kAuMQG00ggL9513Nb@cs.cmu.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (130.133.3.140)
X-Access: 16 17 18
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
Matthew.White@cs.cmu.edu wrote:
: Excerpts from netnews.comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc: 17-Aug-95 Re: Packages
: on a 386? J Wunsch@bonnie.heep.sax (1322*)
: > The floating point code in FreeBSD is not IEEE compliant. Period.
: Okay. Do we *want* to be IEEE compliant?
YES (at least me :-) - i hate it to do an fpsetmask(0) here and there to
avoid these ugly exeptions - thus the following patch is in my kernel now
(thanks to bruce evans for his information) and it would be nice if it would
go into the next RELEASE(s)
t
diff -r -u sys/i386/include/npx.h~ sys/i386/include/npx.h
--- sys/i386/include/npx.h~ Tue Jan 3 04:57:46 1995
+++ sys/i386/include/npx.h Fri Aug 4 20:33:22 1995
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@
#define __INITIAL_NPXCW__ __iBCS_NPXCW__
#endif
#else
-#define __INITIAL_NPXCW__ __BDE_NPXCW__
+#define __INITIAL_NPXCW__ __BETTER_BDE_NPXCW__
#endif
#ifdef KERNEL
_______________________________________________________||_____________________
__||
Perfection is reached, not when there is no __|| thomas graichen
longer anything to add, but when there __|| freie universitaet berlin
is no longer anything to take away __|| fachbereich physik
__||
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery - __||
___________________________||____email: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de____