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From: steve@robobar.co.uk (Steve Bleazard)
Subject: Re: 386BSD: cc1 got fatal signal 6
Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND.
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 09:37:06 GMT
Message-ID: <1993Feb25.093706.26305@robobar.co.uk>
References: <DERAADT.93Feb11012907@newt.newt.cuc.ab.ca> <C2EwAp.88K@sugar.neosoft.com> <1993Feb16.215658.29848@runx.oz.au>
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In article <1993Feb16.215658.29848@runx.oz.au> bde@runx.oz.au (Bruce Evans) writes:
>
>Nope.  The definitive answer is that printf and atof/scanf are inaccurate
>and turn good constants into bad ones, and gcc trusts them too much.
>
>Suitably fudge constants have been posted several times, including once
>by Karl.
>
I would be grateful if someone could either post or mail me the correct values.
I missed the original posting.  If you post them please crosspost to
comp.unix.xenix.sco as users of the xenix port of gcc-2.3.3 will also be
interested.

Thanks, Steve
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