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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: 386BSD: cc1 got fatal signal 6
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1993 00:06:23 GMT
Message-ID: <C2EwAp.88K@sugar.neosoft.com>
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In article <DERAADT.93Feb11012907@newt.newt.cuc.ab.ca> deraadt@newt.cuc.ab.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes:
> I've heard a lot of floating point issues discussed on here, but I have
> never seen a definitive one that declared exactly why this happens.
> I cannot even compile up gcc2.3.2 with this problem.

> What is the DEFINITIVE answer?

The definitive answer is bad constants in math.h and float.h. The patch
kit we tried to distribute from NeoSoft should fix it. I only hope Nate
gets our changes integrated or gives us back control so you all can get
them.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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