Re: netbsd build update

[Ben Pfaff]

Jason Stover <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 08:50:26PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>> John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > I'm not sure exactly what these functions do, but are you advocating
>> > we should ignore floating point errors?   It's ok to turn off FPE's if
>> > we can ensure that the result of a floating point error will be NaN,
>> > but if not, then I would rather have PSPP crash, than to carry on and
>> > give erroneous output.
>> 
>> Yes, the result should be a NaN, and PSPP should present that to
>> the user as a "system-missing" value.  In my opinion, at least.
>> 
>> That is the effect of disabling exceptions, or it should be.
>
> Using the -mieee did cause PSPP to produce a NaN in the output.

Well, that's good news at least.

Does NetBSD have feholdexcept() or __setfpucw()?
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