CACAO 0.95 relased

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Christian Thalinger writes:
 > On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 11:24:18AM +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
 > > Christian Thalinger writes:
 > >  >   * i386 bugfix: Set FPU to 64-bit on VM startup (fixes Debian bug
 > >  >     #350729)
 > > 
 > > Interesting.  Do libcalls still work after you've done this?  Is it
 > > even legal to make library calls with the FPU in a nonstandard mode?
 > > 
 > > I've always been a little reluctant to make gcj do the same thing.
 > 
 > Well, at least the mauve tests (sin, cos, etc.) work and we haven't seen
 > any problem yet.  Any stuff i could test?

The problem is that I don't know!  In theory, any library calls might
fail.  I guess it's quite unlikely, but I can't find any reference to
the floating-point ABI.

Andrew.


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