Greetings! Raymond Toy <[email protected]> writes:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Camm Maguire <[email protected]> wrote: > > Do any of the following cpu's have a 'control word' equivalent? > > mips sparc s390 arm ia64 hppa ppc amd64 (sh alpha m68k ...) > > sparc and ppc both have a control/status word. It's not too different from > the control and status word(s) on x86. > What do you think of this: Use glibc feenableexcept to set the control word if present, or failing this, on x86 only (possibly amd64, is it identical in this respect?), set the control word with inline assembler, or failing this, provide no support. The second should catch both windows and modern mac. The ppc mac and sparc solaris would be orphaned. > I no longer have access to a solaris machine. > > I have occasional access to a solaris/sparc machine. In fact, solaris/sparc > was the only machine where I could build gcl reasonably easily. :-) I > haven't done that on the solaris/sparc machine I have now. > > So now I have no machine that has gcl on it. > Might I obtain some access through you? Take care, -- Camm Maguire [email protected] ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah _______________________________________________ Gcl-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel
