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From: graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Floating point exceptions
Date: 28 Mar 1996 17:10:40 GMT
Organization: his FreeBSD box :-)
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Steve O'Hara-Smith (steveo@iol.ie) wrote:
: In article <4jbkri$1ak@gate.ohs.ie>,
: steveo@gate.ohs.ie (Steve O'Hara-Smith) writes:
: > I am in the process of porting INRIA's scilab package to FreeBSD
: >
: There is an oops in my last posting my news proggy put the wrong
: email address in. This one is right.
: I've dug into the problem a bit more and found that the FPE comes
: from the kernel npx code. I'm off to have a looksee at -current, -stable
: and the SNAP's to see if things are any better there before I try and hack
: that code.
i think there has nothing changed significantly - i think the best partner for
ieee math is bruce evans (look at http://www.freebsd.org for his emain adress)
t
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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