Re: PowerPC (macppc) et al vs "fenv.h"?

Michael <[email protected]> Mon, 21 Dec 2015 10:44:54 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.devel.pkgsrc.user,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.powerpc
Organization	The NetBSD Foundation
Message-ID	<20151221104454.7cc1c507@blackbush>

Hello,

On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 15:37:44 +1100
matthew green <[email protected]> wrote:

> i think when christos says adding fenv.h support is not hard, he
> means for someone familiar with the FP of a particular CPU.  :-)
> 
> it involes creating <machine/fenv.h> and the backend code that is
> necessary for it.  for instance, see here:
> 
>    http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2011/01/31/msg017905.html
> 
> to see what was necessary for sparc64.
> 
> there may be fenv.h support for ppc in some other bsd we can use.

His commit message said 'From FreeBSD' ;)
I hope they've got one for MIPS too...

have fun
Michael