Re: apparent problem on linux/s390

Nicolai Tufar said:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 19:15:23 -0500, Andrew Dunstan
> <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>>
>> problems apparently with NaNs, infinities and negative zeros.
>
> I am the owner of this baby. It is not an actual mainframe,
> it is Hercules emulator running on AthlonXP 2500+ producing
> 20-25 MIPS of pure mainframe horsepower! On bootup Linux
> reports 130 BogoMIPS and OS/390 reports 40 MIPS.
...
>
> Hercules is a tested and proved emulator but I have a vague doubt
> that it's IEEE FPU emulation may be slightly different from the
> real iron's one.


Maybe we should mark the buildfarm member as "s390 emulator" ?

Meanwhile, if anyone knows of real big iron that could join the buildfarm
that would also be good.

cheers

andrew