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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!news.ci.com.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!library.ucla.edu!nnrp.info.ucla.edu!info.ucla.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!narses.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Update for FreeBSD math libraries? Date: 11 Mar 1996 23:57:26 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4i2el6$16o@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4hlpi0$n3p@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu> <4hn504$47l@nntp5.u.washington.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu writes: > >Is an update to the FreeBSD math libraries planned anytime soon. I've > >got a number of programs originally written for SunOS 4.1.3 that generate > >floating point errors and core dump. > FreeBSD supplies the Sun math library and I believe it is the default > library. It is, but FreeBSD isn't fully IEEE-compliant in its exception handling. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)