Re: HEADS UP: Don't upgrade your Alphas!

2003-03-18 Thread Andrew Gallatin
David Schultz writes: > Thus spake Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > David Schultz wrote: > > > This is because floating point > > > support on Alpha is broken unless you specifically tell gcc to > > > unbreak it by specifying -mieee. > > > > Sounds like the ability to turn "-mieee" o

Re: HEADS UP: Don't upgrade your Alphas!

2003-03-18 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > David Schultz wrote: > > This is because floating point > > support on Alpha is broken unless you specifically tell gcc to > > unbreak it by specifying -mieee. > > Sounds like the ability to turn "-mieee" off at all, let alone > making it the default

Re: HEADS UP: Don't upgrade your Alphas!

2003-03-17 Thread Terry Lambert
David Schultz wrote: > This is because floating point > support on Alpha is broken unless you specifically tell gcc to > unbreak it by specifying -mieee. Sounds like the ability to turn "-mieee" off at all, let alone making it the default, is bad? If so, why is that the way it is configured? > I

Re: HEADS UP: Don't upgrade your Alphas!

2003-03-17 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yes, as I have suspected, the gdtoa change is responsible > for a breakage. libc corresponding to this lib/libc works: > > cvs -q up -P -d -D'2003/03/12 20:20:00' > > : Using /home/ru/w/f/usr.bin/awk/nawk nawk... > > This version, together

Re: HEADS UP: Don't upgrade your Alphas!

2003-03-17 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 02:12:31PM -0800, David Schultz wrote: > Thus spake Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hold off upgrading your Alphas for a moment. > > Something broke libc recently that results in > > (at least) floating point exceptions from > > awk(1) (this is not related to today's

Re: HEADS UP: Don't upgrade your Alphas!

2003-03-17 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hold off upgrading your Alphas for a moment. > Something broke libc recently that results in > (at least) floating point exceptions from > awk(1) (this is not related to today's awk > upgrade). > > I've been able to reproduce this on beast.freebsd.o

Re: HEADS UP: Don't upgrade your Alphas!

2003-03-17 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 06:43:11PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 06:40:37PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > Yes, as I have suspected, the gdtoa change is responsible > > for a breakage. libc corresponding to this lib/libc works: > > > > cvs -q up -P -d -D'2003/03/12

Re: HEADS UP: Don't upgrade your Alphas!

2003-03-17 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 06:40:37PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > Yes, as I have suspected, the gdtoa change is responsible > for a breakage. libc corresponding to this lib/libc works: > > cvs -q up -P -d -D'2003/03/12 20:20:00' > > : Using /home/ru/w/f/usr.bin/awk/nawk nawk... > > This v

Re: HEADS UP: Don't upgrade your Alphas!

2003-03-17 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
Yes, as I have suspected, the gdtoa change is responsible for a breakage. libc corresponding to this lib/libc works: cvs -q up -P -d -D'2003/03/12 20:20:00' : Using /home/ru/w/f/usr.bin/awk/nawk nawk... This version, together with contrib/gdtoa, doesn't: cvs -q up -P -d -D'2003