Marko,
I am using the stock Debian 2.4.27 kernel. Don't know how to change the fp setup. Do you have any instructions for
me?
Thanks
Jim
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From: Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: jim@contactbda.com, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:26:05 +0200
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] CSV arm check failure
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:18:58AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 4. Januar 2005 19:03 schrieb Jim Buttafuoco:
> > > ARM platform fails the "point" test see below.
> >
> > For the 7.4 release we got a report for the ARM platform where all tests
> > passed:
> >
> > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2003-10/msg01212.php
> >
> > So either there are various degrees of ARM processors or something is broken.
> > Ideas?
>
> Yes, there are various degrees of those, but most of them should be
> FPU-less. So FPU-emulation details would be interesting.
>
> In case of Linux there are 3 variants:
>
> NWFPE: default
>
> FastFPE: only 32-bit mantissa, 4-8x faster than NWFPE
>
> gcc -msoft-float: no FP instructions, direct calls. This
> changes calling convention, so requires that all
> code is compiled with this.
>
> Jim, do you happen to use FastFPE?
>
> --
> marko
>
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