> > In your opinion, is it better to leave the current behavior of including > fpu.c on Itanium Linux systems, or just remove that since it will be safer? > > Be a bit careful with the language here. If someone has an older (pre-Montecito) Itanium, then from what I understand it is perfectly plausible that they may either purposely or accidentally install an x86-based Linux. I.e., uname -m and uname -p will mismatch. But yes, for uname -m equal to ia64, I would argue that including fpu.c is not safe. In my experience, I don't know of a way to reliably prune the /proc/cpuinfo file on Itaniums in order to determine the hardware support for x86/ia32. (/proc/cpuinfo for Itaniums and older Opterons appear to be problem childs.)
> IMHO, It would have been simpler to just assume 'rm', 'grep', uname and > other similar programs just exist. > At least uname -m appears to be standard, but uname -p -i and -M don't appear to be so. E.g., newer Linux, Mac OS-X, several variants of BSD and IRIX (OK... the last one is a stretch), don't support some of the latter options... while I can find at least one OS that does any of them. Jason -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
