From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: buhr@stat.wisc.edu (Kevin Buhr)
Cc: adam@yggdrasil.com (Adam J. Richter),
drepper@cygnus.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: changing precision control setting in initial FPU context
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 23:37:45 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E14ZLat-0004Js-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vbaofviqvm6.fsf@mozart.stat.wisc.edu> from "Kevin Buhr" at Mar 03, 2001 05:29:53 PM
> with GCC's 64-bit doubles (and its 64-bit clean but 80-bit dirty
> floating point optimizations), so I'm proposing adding an instruction
> to "init_fpu()" to change the default hardware control word.
You want peoples existing applications to suddenely and magically change
their results. Umm problem. If your app needs a specific control word then
just force it in the app
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-03 23:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-03 10:47 RFC: changing precision control setting in initial FPU context Adam J. Richter
2001-03-03 23:29 ` Kevin Buhr
2001-03-03 23:37 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-03-04 0:27 ` Kevin Buhr
2001-03-04 0:45 ` Ulrich Drepper
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-03-03 7:12 Kevin Buhr
2001-03-03 9:31 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-03-03 10:26 ` Kevin Buhr
2001-03-03 20:04 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-03-03 21:00 ` Jason Riedy
2001-03-03 23:17 ` Kevin Buhr
2001-03-04 4:21 ` Jason Riedy
2001-03-03 22:34 ` Kevin Buhr
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