Bug#212912: acknowledged by developer (Bug#212912: fixed in gcc-3.3 1:3.3.2ds3-0pre5)

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

Tyson Whitehead <twhitehe@uwo.ca> writes:

> > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> > #212912: gcc-3.3: [alpha] Linux linker/loader does not support
> > -mieee-conformant, which was filed against the gcc-3.3 package.
> >
> > It has been closed by one of the developers, namely
> > Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>.
>   <snip>
> >    * On alpha-linux, make -mieee default and add -mieee-disable switch
> >      to turn default off (closes: #212912).
> >      (Tyson Whitehead)
> 
> Someone was complaining about SIGFPE's on the Debian Alpha list again, so I 
> downloaded the gcc source to see what was up.
> 
> Looks like the debian/patches/alpha-ieee.dpatch file got added, but
> an inclusion line in the debian/rules.patch file was missed.

I prefered it to be disabled for now because the documentation was
misleading (it should make clear that his is a Debian speciality), and
-mieee wasn't disabled by -ffast-math. Maybe you could supply an
updated patch that does this?

-- 
	Falk