Subject: Re: IEEE math on Alpha
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
From: Thomas T. Thai <tom@minnesota.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 01/01/2001 17:20:43
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Jason R Thorpe wrote:

> Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 11:44:54 -0800
> From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
> To: mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu
> Cc: Thomas T. Thai <tom@minnesota.com>, port-alpha@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: IEEE math on Alpha
> 
> On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 11:47:35PM -0500, mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:
> 
>  > the alpha doesn't have full IEEE math support at the moment.  I'm told
>  > that people are working on it though.
> 
> Yah, Ross promised me he'd do the work over christmas -- guess I should
> bug him about it.

it would be really nice to get this going on the Alpha. PostgreSQL should
be fully functional (atleast with all the regression tests) if we get full
IEEE support.