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Re: port-alpha/6634 (divide by zero gives strange results on alpha)



On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:34:18AM -0500, David Huang wrote:
>> Feedback timeout. Anyone with an alpha want to test the current state 
>> of things?
>
> yerfable /tmp> uname -a
> [...]
> yerfable /tmp> ./float
> i: inf
> j: inf

Looks as if the compiler part of the problem is fixed. Thanks for
testing...

Since it doesn't appear that forcing -mieee everywhere is a
particularly good idea (and, realistically, anything that wants to
divide by zero freely needs a SIGFPE handler) I think we can close the
PR.

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost


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