Re: floating point fwaits for i386

2006-04-04 Thread Robert Dewar
Gary Knott wrote: Dear Gnu gcc person, We have written our own FP exception handler for our use (because we want 1e155*1e155 to return 1.797...e308 (maxpos), and not a NaN!, and so on.) I assume you mean plus infinity? For this to work in our gcc-compiled code, we need gcc t

floating point fwaits for i386

2006-04-04 Thread Gary Knott
Dear Gnu gcc person, We have written our own FP exception handler for our use (because we want 1e155*1e155 to return 1.797...e308 (maxpos), and not a NaN!, and so on.) For this to work in our gcc-compiled code, we need gcc to generate fwaits where needed (after all non-interrupting FP instructio