critical floating point incompatibility

[Julian Elischer]

Carl Shapiro wrote:
> On 12/20/07, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at optushome.com.au> wrote:
>> I believe this is an oversight.  See the thread beginning
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-November/037947.html
> 
> Thanks for the pointer into the -stable mailing list.
> 
> The incorrect precision control bits is a serious quality of life
> issue for those of us who care about consistent numerical computations
> and the backward compatibility of our FreeBSD object code.  Is there
> an active community of users who care about numerics on FreeBSD?
> 
> At any rate, I searched the PR database for a bug related to the
> incorrect control word setting but came up empty handed.  If nothing
> has been filed to date I will go ahead and submit a PR.
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go ahead and submit the PR

I'm guessing a combination of Peter Wemm and Bruce Evans would be able to decide on
the right course of action.

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