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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [Linux-ia64] RE: set the precision of Intel's FPU.
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 23:33:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590709805499@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590709805497@msgid-missing>

Hi John,

>>>>> On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 15:23:22 -0800, John Kern <jkern@numeritech.com> said:

  John> fenv.h implements the C99 standard for both rounding and
  John> exceptions, but it doesn't control precision.  So, the x86
  John> code can't be replace with this (although I'd love to replace
  John> it with a standard call) and I now understand it isn't needed
  John> on IA-64.

Yes, given your background info, there should be no need to call
fesetenv() on ia64 linux.

Thanks,

	--david


      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-12-03 23:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-03 20:00 [Linux-ia64] Re: set the precision of Intel's FPU David Mosberger
2002-12-03 23:23 ` [Linux-ia64] " John Kern
2002-12-03 23:33 ` David Mosberger [this message]

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