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Re: real.c implementation
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: dewar at gnat dot com, rth at redhat dot com
- Cc: aph at redhat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 14:25:03 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: real.c implementation
> Anyway, if they leave nothing unchanged, they'll get a SIGFPE,
> which can be fixed immediately by using -mieee.
Yes, but -mieee is a disaster on that platform as I am sure you know (the
Berkeley folks regard the Alpha as a useless piece of junk since its fpt
performance is frightful -- they start of course from the point of view
that anything less than full IEEE compliance is junk :-)
I agree it is not too terrible to have the SIGFPE and have to fix it.
Though priobably there should be an option (in particular, I would
qualify behavior based on whether -mieee is set),.