RE: set the precision of Intel's FPU.

David Mosberger <[email protected]> Tue, 3 Dec 2002 15:33:22 -0800

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.redhat.ia64.general,gmane.linux.ports.ia64
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi John,

>>>>> On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 15:23:22 -0800, John Kern <[email protected]> said:

  John> fenv.h implements the C99 standard for both rounding and
  John> exceptions, but it doesn't control precision.  So, the x86
  John> code can't be replace with this (although I'd love to replace
  John> it with a standard call) and I now understand it isn't needed
  John> on IA-64.

Yes, given your background info, there should be no need to call
fesetenv() on ia64 linux.

Thanks,

	--david