Re: Why all glibc2 programs are FPU programs
James Mastros (root@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org)
Wed, 27 May 1998 20:31:23 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 27 May 1998, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> You could get advtanges 1 and 2 if you had a setdefaultfpucw
> system call. The downardly compatibile initialization code in glibc
> could look like this:
>
> if (setdefaultpfpucw(__fpu_control) == -1 && errno == ENOSYS)
> setfpucw(__fpu_control);
>
> What do you think of this additional alternative?
Damm... I was just about to suggest that. It should be fairly simple...
Later: Here it is, as an untested patch vs. 2.1.104-pre1. (The kernel
boots fine, the Gimp runs.)
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