Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 May 1998 20:31:23 -0400 (EDT) | From | James Mastros <> | Subject | Re: Why all glibc2 programs are FPU programs |
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On Wed, 27 May 1998, Adam J. Richter wrote: > You could get advtanges 1 and 2 if you had a setdefaultfpucw > system call. The downardly compatibile initialization code in glibc > could look like this: > > if (setdefaultpfpucw(__fpu_control) == -1 && errno == ENOSYS) > setfpucw(__fpu_control); > > What do you think of this additional alternative?
Damm... I was just about to suggest that. It should be fairly simple...
Later: Here it is, as an untested patch vs. 2.1.104-pre1. (The kernel boots fine, the Gimp runs.)
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