From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Brian Gough <bjg@network-theory.co.uk>
To: Lowell Johnson <ldjohn@usgs.gov>
Cc: gsl-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Last IRIX "make check" problem.
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 13:20:00 -0000
Message-id: <15254.24177.389831.704755@debian>
References: <01090411151400.08417@edclxw5> <15253.18824.201294.162546@debian> <01090509043000.18366@edclxw5>
X-SW-Source: 2001/msg00461.html

Lowell Johnson writes:
 >  I did a search in the man page and ... it wasn't there!  Then we
 > noticed the man page header says "Last changed: 4-15-99".  We know that
 > our compiler version is newer than that, so we figured the IEEE_comparisons
 > option is available but didn't know how to invoke it.   After a couple of
 > trial and errors, we got it to work with -OPT:IEEE_comparisons=ON.

Ok, I'll add this to the MACHINES file.

 > What is the last changed date on your IRIX cc manpage?

I found it from a web search, it said 'last changed 4-7-99', but the
manpage was actually for opt(5).

Reading more closely it looks like IEEE_comparisons is deprecated
and -OPT:IEEE_NaN_inf=ON is now the preferred option.

Brian