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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.nla.gov.au!act.news.telstra.net!newshost.telstra.net!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Update for FreeBSD math libraries? Date: 13 Mar 1996 08:20:06 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4i60fm$arb@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4hlpi0$n3p@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu> <4hn504$47l@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <4i2el6$16o@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4i42ma$3p4@infoborg.dmacc.cc.ia.us> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 In-Reply-To: <4i42ma$3p4@infoborg.dmacc.cc.ia.us> To: bde@kralizec.zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: cfr@infoborg.dmacc.cc.ia.us (Charles F. Randall) cfr@infoborg.dmacc.cc.ia.us (Charles F. Randall) writes: > >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. Message Cc'ed to Bruce Evans. I hope he will enlighten you what's still missing. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)