[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] mesa: Drop USE_IEEE define.

Jonathan Gray jsg at jsg.id.au
Fri Aug 8 00:39:23 PDT 2014


On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 04:54:38PM -0700, Matt Turner wrote:
> I think OpenVMS was the only platform that Mesa ran on that used a
> non-IEEE representation for floats. We removed OpenVMS support a while
> back, and this should alleviate the need to continue updating the
> this-platform-uses-IEEE list.

OpenVMS isn't the only thing that runs on a vax, this will likely
break the software rasteriser on OpenBSD and NetBSD on vax.

It seems Mesa isn't currently built on OpenBSD/vax but is
on NetBSD.  Though NetBSD are stuck with Mesa 7.x.x due to
the DRM/KMS situation.


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