cvs commit: src/share/man/man3 Makefile src/lib/libc/alpha/gen
Makefile.inc fpsetsticky.c src/lib/libc/amd64/gen Makefile.inc
fpsetsticky.c src/lib/libc/powerpc/gen Makefile.inc fpsetsticky.c
src/lib/libc/softfloat Makefile.inc src/lib/libc/sparc64/gen ...
Bruce Evans
bde at zeta.org.au
Tue Mar 15 18:44:13 PST 2005
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, David Schultz wrote:
> ...
> Log:
> Remove fpsetsticky(). This was added for SysV compatibility, but due
> to mistakes from day 1, it has always had semantics inconsistent with
> SVR4 and its successors. In particular, given argument M:
> ...
> There is no way to fix fpsetsticky() to DTRT for both old FreeBSD apps
> and apps ported from other operating systems, so the best approach
> seems to be to kill the function and fix any apps that break. I
> ...
> PR: 75862
> Suggested by: bde
Thanks.
Bruce
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