Re: Not supporting fpgetmask(3) on aarch64

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 09:43:53AM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
> 
> On Mar 24, 2014, at 8:40 AM, Ignatios Souvatzis 
> <ignatios%cs.uni-bonn.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:11:14AM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> >> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 07:30:31AM +0100, ????? ???????????? wrote:
> >>> Yes, if you wish to run, scientific software on it.
> >> 
> >> Scientific software can and should use fenv(3) too...
> > 
> > What about the precision part in fpget...(3)'s BUGS section?
> > 
> > "                        These interfaces are deprecated and the ones in
> >  fenv(3) should be used, although the interfaces in fenv(3) don't support
> >  getting or setting the precision."
> 
> except setting the precision is only valid for x86 (and anything else
> supporting 80-bit FP).

...and likely to give unexpected results at least for amd64.

Joerg