From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id g1ILjXL11368 for linux-mips-outgoing; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:45:33 -0800 Received: from cygnus.com (runyon.sfbay.redhat.com [205.180.230.5]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id g1ILjU911342 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:45:30 -0800 Received: from myware.mynet (fiendish.cygnus.com [205.180.231.146]) by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA19566; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 12:44:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from drepper@localhost) by myware.mynet (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1IKiSY29278; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 12:44:28 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: myware.mynet: drepper set sender to drepper@redhat.com using -f To: Geoff Keating Cc: moshier@moshier.net, fxzhang@ict.ac.cn, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com, libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: math broken on mips References: <200202182018.g1IKIk802891@desire.geoffk.org> Reply-To: drepper@redhat.com (Ulrich Drepper) X-fingerprint: BE 3B 21 04 BC 77 AC F0 61 92 E4 CB AC DD B9 5A X-fingerprint: e6:49:07:36:9a:0d:b7:ba:b5:e9:06:f3:e7:e7:08:4a From: Ulrich Drepper Date: 18 Feb 2002 12:44:28 -0800 In-Reply-To: <200202182018.g1IKIk802891@desire.geoffk.org> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.5 (asparagus) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Geoff Keating writes: > Maybe we should add appropriate fesetround() calls to the math > library? No, this would punish the people who do not do stupid things with rounding modes. The user must know much better where such changes are needed. As you mentioned, there is no promise of precision in the standard therefore everything is just fine as it is, standard-wise. -- ---------------. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \ ,-------------------' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `------------------------