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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/fpucw.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/fpucw.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/fpucw.h b/lib/fpucw.h index dbbe363..2361160 100644 --- a/lib/fpucw.h +++ b/lib/fpucw.h @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ /* Manipulating the FPU control word. - Copyright (C) 2007-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + Copyright (C) 2007-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Written by Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, 2007. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify @@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ On some platforms, such as NetBSD, the default precision is set to "double precision". This means that 'long double' instructions will operate - only as 'double', i.e. lead wrong results. + only as 'double', i.e. lead to wrong results. Similarly on FreeBSD 6.4, at + least for the division of 'long double' numbers. The FPU control word is under control of the application, i.e. it is not required to be set either way by the ABI. (In fact, the i386 ABI |