Re: [PORTS] RedHat6.0 & Alpha

Thats NOT THE PROBLEM.
Although u have localize the -mieee/float in the date stuff, u have needlessly
inflicted the -mieee switch on ALL compiled modules.
I would have prefered it to be makefile ( Certainly on a SUBSYS.o, and even better on
on a per module.o) compile under a makefile switch
ie: ( or something simular )

if eq($(CPUID),alpha)
myfloat.o: myfloat.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -mieee myfloat.c -o myfloat.o
fi

Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > > 3) -mieee informs the egcs compiler fot the alpha to inject 'trapb'
> >
> > I am stumped on why we even need -mieee, but someone supplied a patch to
> > add it.
>
> That someone would be me. :) I supplied a patch to add about a
> year ago as that was the only way I could get some of the date/time code
> w