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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!lazrus.cca.rockwell.com!newssvr.cacd.rockwell.com!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!newsrelay.netins.net!news.netins.net!news.dmacc.cc.ia.us!not-for-mail 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 Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4i42ma$3p4@infoborg.dmacc.cc.ia.us> References: <4hlpi0$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> NNTP-Posting-Host: infoborg.dmacc.cc.ia.us 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 -- Charles F. Randall E-mail: crandall@dmacc.cc.ia.us UNIX Systems Programmer Voice: (515) 965-7057 Perl Hacker - Powered by FreeBSD! FAX: (515) 965-7305