Re: netbsd build update

[Jason Stover]

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 08:59:57PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Jason Stover <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 08:50:26PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >> John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
> >> 
> >> > I'm not sure exactly what these functions do, but are you advocating
> >> > we should ignore floating point errors?   It's ok to turn off FPE's if
> >> > we can ensure that the result of a floating point error will be NaN,
> >> > but if not, then I would rather have PSPP crash, than to carry on and
> >> > give erroneous output.
> >> 
> >> Yes, the result should be a NaN, and PSPP should present that to
> >> the user as a "system-missing" value.  In my opinion, at least.
> >> 
> >> That is the effect of disabling exceptions, or it should be.
> >
> > Using the -mieee did cause PSPP to produce a NaN in the output.
> 
> Well, that's good news at least.
> 
> Does NetBSD have feholdexcept() or __setfpucw()?

No. I'm not sure what it has for FPE's. man -k float doesn't show much.

-Jason