On Thu, 25 Sep 2025, Greg Troxel wrote:
I ran paranoia (pkgsrc/benchmarks/paranoia) on 9 and 10. On 9:
The number of FAILUREs encountered = 3.
The number of SERIOUS DEFECTs discovered = 4.
The number of DEFECTs discovered = 3.
The number of FLAWs discovered = 2.
which is shocking, especially as I remember earlier NetBSD i386 versions
being ok, like 5 or 7.
Force strict standards compliance with `-std=c89' or `-std=c99', or pass the
`-fexcess-precision=standard' flag to the compiler.
As the gcc(1) man-page explains (see the description for `-fexcess-precision'):
By default, -fexcess-precision=fast is in effect; this means that
operations may be carried out in a wider precision than the types
specified in the source if that would result in faster code, and it
is unpredictable when rounding to the types specified in the
source code takes place.
-RVP
