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RE: FWD: FLOATING-POINT CONSISTENCY, -FFLOAT-STORE, AND X86
- To: bosch at gnat dot com, egcs at cygnus dot com, hjstein at bfr dot co dot il, moshier at mediaone dot net
- Subject: RE: FWD: FLOATING-POINT CONSISTENCY, -FFLOAT-STORE, AND X86
- From: tprince at cat dot e-mail dot com
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 17:37:19 EST
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>>Since my proposal is not likely to be implemented anytime
soon, I
suggest we try patching gcc to force programs to start in 64-bit
mode and otherwise not worry about it ("set once and forget") as
you've been proposing.<<
Can't this be made optional, either a flag which links the
modified startup, or a system function call?
Dr. Timothy C. Prince
Consulting Engineer
Solar Turbines, a Caterpillar Company
alternate e-mail: tprince@computer.org
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