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Re: Not supporting fpgetmask(3) on aarch64



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).



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