to mistakes from day 1, it has always had semantics inconsistent with
SVR4 and its successors. In particular, given argument M:
- On Solaris and FreeBSD/{alpha,sparc64}, it clobbers the old flags
and *sets* the new flag word to M. (NetBSD, too?)
- On FreeBSD/{amd64,i386}, it *clears* the flags that are specified in M
and leaves the remaining flags unchanged (modulo a small bug on amd64.)
- On FreeBSD/ia64, it is not implemented.
There is no way to fix fpsetsticky() to DTRT for both old FreeBSD apps
and apps ported from other operating systems, so the best approach
seems to be to kill the function and fix any apps that break. I
couldn't find any ports that use it, and any such ports would already
be broken on FreeBSD/ia64 and Linux anyway.
By the way, the routine has always been undocumented in FreeBSD,
except for an MLINK to a manpage that doesn't describe it. This
manpage has stated since 5.3-RELEASE that the functions it describes
are deprecated, so that must mean that functions that it is *supposed*
to describe but doesn't are even *more* deprecated. ;-)
Note that fpresetsticky() has been retained on FreeBSD/i386. As far
as I can tell, no other operating systems or ports of FreeBSD
implement it, so there's nothing for it to be inconsistent with.
PR: 75862
Suggested by: bde
place.
This moves the dependency on GCC's and other compiler's features into
the central sys/cdefs.h file, while the individual source files can
then refer to #ifdef __COMPILER_FEATURE_FOO where they by now used to
refer to #if __GNUC__ > 3.1415 && __BARC__ <= 42.
By now, GCC and ICC (the Intel compiler) have been actively tested on
IA32 platforms by netchild. Extension to other compilers is supposed
to be possible, of course.
Submitted by: netchild
Reviewed by: various developers on arch@, some time ago
the SSE mxcsr register as well. Since gcc will intermix SSE2 and x87
FP code, the fpsetround() etc mode had better be the same.
There are hooks to enable these inlines to be instantiated inside libc
for non-gcc or C++ callers. (g++ doesn't like the inlines that tried
to extract an integer and convert it to an enum).
<machine/ieeefp.h> where it belongs.
o Remove the i386 specific inclusion of <machine/floatingpoint.h>
from <ieeefp.h>, now that including <machine/ieeefp.h> is enough
for all architectures.
o Allow <machine/ieeefp.h> to inline the functions exposed by the
headers by checking for _IEEEFP_INLINED_ in the MI header. When
defined, prototypes are not given and it is assumed that the MD
headers, when inlining only a subset of the functions provide
prototypes for the functions not being inlined.
Based on patch from: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Tested with: make release.
macros) to the signal handler, for old-style BSD signal handlers as
the second (int) argument, for SA_SIGINFO signal handlers as
siginfo_t->si_code. This is source-compatible with Solaris, except
that we have no <siginfo.h> (which isn't even mentioned in POSIX
1003.1b).
An rather complete example program is at
http://www3.cons.org/cracauer/freebsd-signal.c
This will be added to the regression tests in src/.
This commit also adds code to disable the (hardware) FPU from
userconfig, so that you can use a software FP emulator on a machine
that has hardware floating point. See LINT.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
