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Re: setting fpu precision for jni
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: GCJ Hackers <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:28:21 +0000
- Subject: Re: setting fpu precision for jni
- References: <m3iruahrv2.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
Tom Tromey writes:
> Vektor found this bug:
>
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5200
>
> In this case the problem works in our favor.
> But I wonder if we ought to set the fpu this way for compatibility.
It's probably a bad idea. I think there's an implicit contract with
any libraries we call that global system state will be sane; putting
the FPU into a shorter precision for pedantic Java compliance IMO
doesn't qualify as "sane".
Andrew.