From: "david m. richter" Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] nfsstat: add -D/--diff-stat Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 17:26:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <20070807211920.GA16557@uio.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: Neil Brown , Andrew Richardson , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, Alex Soule To: "Steinar H. Gunderson" Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IIWcZ-0007jL-Jg for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:29:45 -0700 Received: from citi.umich.edu ([141.211.133.111]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1IIWZD-0005GW-8S for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:26:17 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20070807211920.GA16557@uio.no> List-Id: "Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 05:39:49PM -0400, david m. richter wrote: > > + double time_diff; > > Unfortunately, this breaks the build on alpha. For some reason, configure.ac > does > > case $host in > alpha*) > ARCHFLAGS="-mno-fp-regs -ffixed-8" ;; > *) > ARCHFLAGS="" ;; > esac > > which essentially means that you cannot use any floating-point in the program > at all, according to the Debian alpha porters. > > Either this snippet must be removed for alpha (I presume it was put in for a > reason at some point, but I have no idea what this reason was, and if it's > still valid), or the code must be rewritten not to use floating-point. > > /* Steinar */ ach, that's too bad; thanks for finding it. that double is only used in one spot, in a "helpful" message that isn't important; we could remove it. i'll look at it right now. does anyone know the reason behind no-floating-point-on-Alpha? thanks, d . ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs