Jake Burkholder wrote: > > Isn't that really a lame excuse? Shouldn't > > > > #ifdef __FreeBSD__ > > > > be enough to make code compile on all FreeBSD platforms? > > I don't know, why don't you try it.
I understand the snide reply. My point was that if FreeBSD had platform differences, it should hide them from user space applications: if it's going to be as hard to port to FreeBSD-alpha from FreeBSD-i386, then you might as well spend your time on a higher margin platform. Apparently, Solaris supports fpsetmask(3C) in SVR4 derived Solaris on SPARC, which means that this is not an Intel-specific feature, and therefore it's not possible to justify it being an Intel-specific feature in FreeBSD. In the absolute worst case, it should be stubbed out, and complain, on SPARC and Alpha, if it isn't made to work. Solaris man page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fpsetmask&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=SunOS+5.8&format=html -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
