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From: curt@toad.com (Curt Mayer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: floating point exceptions
Message-ID: <31080@toad.com>
Date: 26 Jan 93 02:54:26 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Ethnopharmacological Disneyland
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Keywords: signal 6, gcc2.3.3
alright, so i reinstalled from ground zero for the 4th time, installed
the latest patch kit from agate, recompiled the world, so why do i
still get these signal 6's all over the place when trying to recompile ?
do I have a defective 486?
am i the only one that gets these?
should I disable the on-chip fpu?
i see complaints on here about gcc2.3.3 not building
enquire.c with 'out of range double' or something. gcc2.3.3 detects
these by catching signal 6. some people cryptically write "just tweak
the DBL_MAX and DBL_MIN values in this here magic include file".
and then what? rebuild the compiler? libc? reinstall from ground zero?
confused.
p.s. except for floating point, 0.1 with patchset 0.2 is pretty solid.
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curt mayer
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