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From: graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Update for FreeBSD math libraries?
Date: 8 Mar 1996 19:20:37 GMT
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Brad Stubbs (bstubbs@felix.seas.gwu.edu) wrote:
: Is an update to the FreeBSD math libraries planned anytime soon. I've
: got a number of programs originally written for SunOS 4.1.3 that generate
: floating point errors and core dump. I can compile and run them on a
: Linux box by using -lieee (which doesn't really do anything except set
: the math co-processor control word to 0x137f). I've looked at fpsetmask()
: and friends but these don't seem to deal with the high 4 bits (I think I
: need to set bit #12). Can anyone help me out?
simply set the math co-processor control word to 0x137f in
/usr/include/machine/npx.h and recompile your kernel - then you have the
behavior you want - maybe this helps you
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thomas graichen graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de graichen@FreeBSD.org
perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when
there is no longer anything to take away antoine de saint-exupery