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From: j@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: gcc 2.4.2+?
Date: 24 Jun 1993 19:49:19 +0200
Organization: Textil Computer Design GmbH, Dresden, Germany
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References: <1vkm7v$kie@europa.eng.gtefsd.com> <203ik9$hj2@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <DBARKER.93Jun23231904@siren.awadi.com.au>
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In article <DBARKER.93Jun23231904@siren.awadi.com.au> dbarker@awadi.com.au writes:
>What niemidc@oasis.gtefsd.com meant to say was that the cc1 built from
>the 1.39 version of gcc shipped with 386bsd 0.1 will fail (with a
>SIGFPE if I remember right) trying to compile enquire.c. If, instead,
>you build that cc1 with a pre-existing gcc 2.?.?, then enquire.c will
>compile, and enquire will work.
But it ain't only a matter of gcc, the npx code is still bogus in
386bsd. Bruce Evans provided some patches (and told me they'd be
in patchkit 0.2.4), maybe it'll go better with them. But i guess
there'd be still something to do till we have the IEEE behaviour.
Btw., you don't really need to build enquire. It's only done to
have a reliable float.h. If you trust your old float.h, you might
just omit the enquire stuff.
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