Math changes in glibc 2.31

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Mon May 11 11:05:27 GMT 2020


* Damien Zammit:

> Regarding the release of 2.31 of glibc (is this the right channel of enquiry?)
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2020-02/msg00001.html
>
> I heard that binaries previously compiled with `-ffast-math
> -fno-finite-math-only` won't run on new systems.  Why did this have to
> change?  This is going to create havoc especially with audio packages
> that heavily optimise.

What failures did you see?  It's hard to comment on rumors.

Thanks,
Florian



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