Set the default behavior on alpha to use -mieee since the large majority of time we want this (bad/weird things can happen with packages built without -mieee). To satisfy those people who may not want -mieee forced on them all the time, we also provide -mno-ieee. Patch by Mike Frysinger --- gcc/config/alpha/alpha.h | 2 ++ gcc/config/alpha/alpha.opt | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: gcc-4.3.1/gcc/config/alpha/alpha.h =================================================================== --- gcc-4.3.1.orig/gcc/config/alpha/alpha.h +++ gcc-4.3.1/gcc/config/alpha/alpha.h @@ -95,6 +95,8 @@ along with GCC; see the file COPYING3. while (0) #endif +#define CPP_SPEC "%{!no-ieee:-mieee}" + #define WORD_SWITCH_TAKES_ARG(STR) \ (!strcmp (STR, "rpath") || DEFAULT_WORD_SWITCH_TAKES_ARG(STR)) Index: gcc-4.3.1/gcc/config/alpha/alpha.opt =================================================================== --- gcc-4.3.1.orig/gcc/config/alpha/alpha.opt +++ gcc-4.3.1/gcc/config/alpha/alpha.opt @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Target RejectNegative Mask(IEEE_CONFORMA Request IEEE-conformant math library routines (OSF/1) mieee -Target Report RejectNegative Mask(IEEE) +Target Report Mask(IEEE) Emit IEEE-conformant code, without inexact exceptions mieee-with-inexact