gritz@seas.gwu.edu (Larry Gritz) (06/14/91)
Last week I posted an example program showing how certain floating point
operations work more slowly on a 425 (68040) than on the 400t (68030),
in particular the floating point --> ascii conversion used by the *printf
family of routines. I also related our initial difficulty in finding HP
representatives who were aware of the problem and/or knew of a solution.
I thank those in netland for their help in narrowing down the problem.
I am still answering inquiries and requests for the demo programs.
We got a patch for the problem HAND DELIVERED by HP yesterday. It replaces
three small object files in the /lib/libc.a library. This fixes the problem
entirely. HP representatives were most helpful, once we got hold of some
who were actually aware of the problem. I have been informed that (1) the
fix will be a part of HP-UX 8.0, which is scheduled for release soon, and
(2) the patch to HP-UX 7.05 will be generally released in about two weeks
through the usual customer support channels.
Thanks to all,
-- Larry Gritz, US Naval Observatory
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Larry Gritz lg@galileo.usno.navy.mil
US Naval Observatory phone: 202-653-1034
Washington, DC 20392-5100 also: gritz@seas.gwu.edu