Re: [sage-devel] Sympow on Linux Itanium

2010-08-08 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 08/ 8/10 05:09 AM, Jason B Hill wrote: 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 wh

Re: [sage-devel] Sympow on Linux Itanium

2010-08-07 Thread Jason B Hill
> > 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 plausi

Re: [sage-devel] Sympow on Linux Itanium

2010-08-06 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 08/ 6/10 04:06 AM, Jason B Hill wrote: Has sympow been tested on Itanium Linux much? Itanium versions exist in the repositories for Debian (Lenny/Sid), Ubuntu and Fedora. So, the short answer is "yes." Thank you. If I'm not mistaken, that script will include x86 based code for the floa

Re: [sage-devel] Sympow on Linux Itanium

2010-08-05 Thread Jason B Hill
Has sympow been tested on Itanium Linux much? > Itanium versions exist in the repositories for Debian (Lenny/Sid), Ubuntu and Fedora. So, the short answer is "yes." > > If I'm not mistaken, that script will include x86 based code for the > floating point processor (in the file fpu.c) if the syst

[sage-devel] Sympow on Linux Itanium

2010-08-05 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Has sympow been tested on Itanium Linux much? Anyone that reads sage-solaris will know John Palmieri has got Sage building on fulvia (Solaris x86), but has some problems with sympow. I decided to have a look at the sympow source code. It's not the easiest code to follow, for various reasons.