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From: cfr@infoborg.dmacc.cc.ia.us (Charles F. Randall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Update for FreeBSD math libraries?
Date: 12 Mar 1996 08:45:30 -0600
Organization: Des Moines Area Community College
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References: <4hlpi0$n3p@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu> <4hn504$47l@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <4i2el6$16o@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Reply-To: "Charles F. Randall" <crandall@dmacc.cc.ia.us>
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J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu writes:
>> FreeBSD supplies the Sun math library and I believe it is the default
>> library.
>
>It is, but FreeBSD isn't fully IEEE-compliant in its exception
>handling.

Are there plans to correct this? This would seem like a major
complication for those considering FreeBSD for numerical analysis
and/or scientific computing.

-Randy

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