docs: document glMultiDrawElements() fix

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@@ -26,3 +26,13 @@ On Alpha platforms at default a sharable images for the libraries are created.
 To get a static library make it by typing MMS/MACRO=(NOSHARE=1).
 On VAX platforms only static libraries can be build.
 
+23-sep-2005
+changed default compilation to use /float=ieee/ieee=denorm. The reason for 
+this is that it makes Mesa on OpenVMS better compatible with other platforms
+and other packages for VMS that I maintain.
+For more information see
+      http://nchrem.tnw.tudelft.nl/openvms
+      https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4270
+You may want to compile Mesa to use VAX-floating point arithmetic, instead
+of IEEE floating point by removing the /float=IEEE/denorm flag from the
+compiler options in the descrip.mms files.