Re: Recent new atf test failures

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 02:57:15PM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, David Laight wrote:
> 
> >Actually, I wonder, have you rebuilt qemu since jeorg changed the
> >default x87 precision to 80bits?
> >That might be the difference between your tests and gson's tests
> >(which only show some minor errors for exp2f(7.7) and exp2f(8.8).
> 
> No, I have not updated my qemu recently (several months).

That change was somewhere near the end of last year.
The behaviour depends on the binutils version at the time the program
was linked.
There isn't a sysctl to force 64 or 80 bit modes.

        David

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