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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Packages on a 386?
Date: 21 Aug 1995 11:57:55 +0200
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Thomas Graichen <graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>: Okay. Do we *want* to be IEEE compliant?
>
>YES (at least me :-) - i hate it to do an fpsetmask(0) here and there to
>avoid these ugly exeptions - thus the following patch is in my kernel now
>(thanks to bruce evans for his information) and it would be nice if it would
>go into the next RELEASE(s)
This would have to be blessed by Bruce. If he knows about such a
simple trick, and didn't integrate it into the default configuration
yet, i suppose he has good reason for not doing so.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)