Re: floating point woes on i386

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

On 9/26/25 5:50 PM, RVP wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Sep 2025, Greg Troxel wrote:
>
> > I ran paranoia (pkgsrc/benchmarks/paranoia) on 9 and 10.  On 9:
> >
> >  The number of  FAILUREs  encountered =       3.
> >  The number of  SERIOUS DEFECTs  discovered = 4.
> >  The number of  DEFECTs  discovered =         3.
> >  The number of  FLAWs  discovered =           2.
> >
> > which is shocking, especially as I remember earlier NetBSD i386 versions
> > being ok, like 5 or 7.
>
> Force strict standards compliance with `-std=c89' or `-std=c99', or 
> pass the
> `-fexcess-precision=standard' flag to the compiler.

There is on newer i386 also the option of using -mfpmath=sse. That's 
strictly speaking the only way to get IEEE754 semantics on i386.

Joreg