Re: SIGFPE resolution?

[Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Phil Carmody <thefatphil@yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> --- Thomas Evans <tom@23palmer.net> wrote:
> > I really hope that no one is doing severely high
> > performance, mission critical, FP code on pre-EV6
> > alphas these days, so I really feel that defaulting
> > all Debian built Alpha images to IEEE shouldn't be
> > a big deal.
> 
> I do all of my presieving and some of my testing for 
> my PIES project on a pre-EV6 alpha. No, it's not 
> exactly mission critical, but it _is_ high performance, 
> and it is FP code. (And it doesn't depend on IEEE 
> nappy-changing as it doesn't shit itself.)

There was one suggestion to disable -mieee by -ffast-math. -ffast-math
also enables a *lot* of other optimizations, so if you don't want IEEE
compliance, you might want it anyway. Would that be acceptable to you?

-- 
	Falk