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Jeff Kowing said: |
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> Robert, I was bit by at least one of the problems a while back. It |
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> seems that some of the floating point code is not quite right yet for |
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> pentium4. I believe this is a gcc and maybe glibc issue. The |
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> particular example that caused me problems is the glibc modf() |
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> function. See |
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> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=27211&highlight=python+float |
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> for more info and a sample c program that will highlight the problem. |
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> It was suggested at the time by Nick Jones (see |
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> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/23056) that I back |
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> down to pentium2. I haven't updated my portage recently, so I |
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> haven't looked at what the new updated make.conf file suggests but I |
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> definitely would follow any advice it gives. |
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I'm also using P4 and have not faced any problems. Would changing to P3 |
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result in any noticeable drop in performance? Also, has gcc 3.2.2 |
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compensated for this problem at all in comparison to previous releases? |
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