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Re: Bug with g77 and -mieee on Alpha Linux



Due to a charming DEC assembler bug, the mieee switches did  not
work well enough to be usable on alpha-osf up to osf-4.0 or so.
It would be a disaster to make ieee the default on those systems.

If you have a working assembler now, the ieee modes should be tested.
At the time, it was so hard to make anything at all run that it
would be  a miracle if it really worked.

Sat Mar 16 16:20:43 1996  David Mosberger-Tang  <davidm@azstarnet.com>

    * alpha.md (trap): New attribute.
    Modify patterns for all floating-point trap generating
    instructions.
    * alpha.h (CPP_SPEC): Added -mieee and -mieee-with-inexact.
    (alpha_trap_precision, alpha_fp_rounding_mode, alpha_fp_trap_mode):
    New enum types.



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