Subject: Re: gcc math problems on NetBSD and OpenBSD
To: Lars Bausch <lars.bausch@dotsch.de>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 12/30/2005 11:09:51
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On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 03:37:09PM +0100, Lars Bausch wrote:
> I am try to porting the new seti@home to NetBSD and OpenBSD on various=20
> hardware.
>=20
> Seti@home do a lot of floating point computations....
> A test with a reference WU on NetBSD and OpenBSD (both on i386 and=20
> SPARC) gave heavly differencing results between the computed and the=20
> reference results.
> I used different gcc releases and different compiler flags.

Does the code use any float operations from within a signal handler?

Jaromir
--=20
Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>            http://www.NetBSD.cz/
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