alpha IEEE floating-point patch

Jeffrey A Law law@cygnus.com
Thu Aug 26 23:11:00 GMT 1999


  In message < 199908261904.OAA16370@polya.math.purdue.edu >you write:
  > I had some difficulty understanding what was meant by "opposite" in this
  > comment in toplev.c until I read the code using f_options:
  > 
  > /* Table of language-independent -f options.
  >    STRING is the option name.  VARIABLE is the address of the variable.
  >    ON_VALUE is the value to store in VARIABLE
  >     if `-fSTRING' is seen as an option.
  >    (If `-fno-STRING' is seen as an option, the opposite value is stored.)  
  > */
  > 
  > I'm sorry I can't offer a patch that works,
I'm going assume this is what your and Richard were discussing and that he's
provided you with the information you need.

  > but I really would appreciate
  > an option that allows me to turn off flag_errno_math.
As would the Fortran folks :-)

jeff



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