Patch: default to -mieee on alpha

Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
Tue Feb 11 18:08:00 GMT 2003


>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Sturm <jsturm@one-point.com> writes:

Jeff> Possibly.  The difficulty is that fp traps become unrecoverable.  For
Jeff> example, this class will terminate on SIGFPE without -mieee:

Ah, ok.  I think we can't use -mno-ieee in any situation then.

Jeff> BTW is this example OK for the testsuite?  In libjava.lang?

Sure.  Could you add a comment at the top explaining what the test is
for?  Recently I've come to realize that such comments would be pretty
useful to have...

Tom



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