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Re: pkgsrc: python310 issues -> no ca-certificates



On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 12:19:54PM +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> Going soft fp is not something I'd vote for. Performance would hurt, and
> quite honestly, I don't actually think much of any software would actually
> have any problems using VAX FP instead of IEEE754.

Definitively!

The same happend with perl in the past, but it was easy to upstream the
very few fixes actually needed (mostly straight portability fixes
like replacing some out-of-thin-air double constant by something like
__DBL_MAX__).

Martin


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