Re: gcc/libm floating-point bug?

From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2_at_mindspring.com>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 09:06:07 -0700
Jon Lido wrote:
> I've been running 5-CURRENT on my laptop for about a week now.  I believe I
> may have found a bug in FreeBSD's gcc floating-point code generation, or
> perhaps more likely, in the math library.
[ ... ]
> I know my floating point hardware is fine, since I used to run xmms and artsd
> fine under Linux before I switched the machine to FreeBSD.
> 
> I'd appreciate any help with further isolating and reproducing the bug.  Has
> anyone else experienced this problem?

There was a recent discussion about -mieee being set by
default in one of the Makefiles, which leaked into the
main code base.  It may be that you need the option, or
you need to disable it (depending on when you downloaded
you copy of -current).

-- Terry
Received on Tue May 20 2003 - 07:07:25 UTC

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