Re: netbsd-7 i386 floating point troubles

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> writes:

> While testing an update to proj 6 (geospatial coordinate conversions), I
> noticed that the tests failed on NetBSD 7 i386, after passing on NetBSD
> 8 amd64.
>
> I then ran paranoia (pkgsrc/benchmarks/paranoia), which reported
> multiple serious problems:
>
>   The number of  FAILUREs  encountered =       3.
>   The number of  SERIOUS DEFECTs  discovered = 4.
>   The number of  DEFECTs  discovered =         3.
>   The number of  FLAWs  discovered =           2.
>
>   The arithmetic diagnosed has unacceptable Serious Defects.
>   Potentially fatal FAILURE may have spoiled this program's subsequent diagnoses.
>   

With CFLAGS=-ffloat-store I find htat parnaoia has "1 FLAW" -- but
that's vastly better -- on both of my i386 machines.

Does anybody understand if compiling without float-store is supposed to
be ok?