Re: [PORTS] RedHat6.0 & Alpha

> 1) The reason why for -mieee is that if u care for some of the 'rare' floating point
> exceptions ( as defined by alpha floating point hardware )  then u want to handle
> them - as per ieee specifications to give u the correct ieee result. When the
> processor cant handle the exceptions it (can ) traps to software assist routines
> ( hidden in the kernel ). But in order for the kernel to fix the exception u have to
> stop the pipeline as close to the problem, so u can backtrace the user pc ( which is
> by now quite a few instructions ahead of where the exception occured ) to the point
> where it occured to see what register needs to have the correct value inserted.
>     Without the -mieee, the compiler will not arrange the float operations so that
> it can be backstepped when a fault occures. The kernel then cannot fix the problem,
> and forces a floating point exception onto the program. Death usually follows.
>     Therefor only do -mieee where u need to. ERGO can this flag be set individually
> as per each individual makefile, and not as per ./configure ?

Right now, it is hard to have makefile-specific flags.

> 2) Then I want to report a bug - HAS_LONG_LONG in one of the 'c' files needs to be
> turned on - I think there is only one - also for RH6.0/alpha. I dont think that
> RH6.0/alpha has long long as a type and just uses long to define a 64bit quantity

Add 'set -x' to configure, and figure how how the test is working in
configure.  Look at the configure output.  It shows how it is setting
those flags.

> 3) Then can I presume that Absolutetime/Relativetime in nabstime.h will be changed
> to int32?

Added to TODO:

* Make Absolutetime/Relativetime int4 because time_t can be int8 on some ports


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