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From: opjnw@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Nathan Williams)
Subject: Re: my bug list
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In article <C35CGL.G1n@unix.portal.com> mykes@shell.portal.com (mike myke schwartz) writes:
>Nate Williams (nate@cs.montana.edu) wrote:
>: In article <C34un3.Hp6@unix.portal.com> mykes@shell.portal.com (mike myke schwartz) writes:
>
>New bugs:
>
>Any idea how to fix the com1 silo overflow problem I am having?

Get Chris's com driver.

>
>The trap 6 problem is a REAL problem.  I did back out patch00060
>but that didn't help.  I've hand modified the #include files for
>HUGE, etc., and that doesn't help.  Why it is a big problem is that
>I can't make everything because I get the trap 6 - particularly
>when recompiling the g++ library and awk.  The make didn't get past
>either of those, and I got tired of making the universe by hand -
>cd dir ; make ; make install ; make clean ; cd ..
>

Nope, but I will say that there are people looking at correct solutions
to the problem.  It has to do with too large of constansts, which cause
bad over-flow errors.


Nate
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