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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!news.u.washington.edu!serval!hlu From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: float.h, strtod(), signal 6, and my temper.. Message-ID: <1993Mar17.011450.2228@serval.net.wsu.edu> Date: 17 Mar 93 01:14:50 GMT Article-I.D.: serval.1993Mar17.011450.2228 References: <5939@blue.cis.pitt.edu> Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University Lines: 28 In article <5939@blue.cis.pitt.edu>, air+@pitt.edu (Alvin I Rosenthal) writes: |> I'm getting frustrated. I installed the newest "latest" 84 - 110 patches |> and verified that the HUGE and DBL values in the headers were changed. I |> then installed the patch (00089) that added strtod() to atof. It still |> bombed with a signal 6. I tried using gcc-2.3.3. This time dumped core. |> I read a suggestion about disabling cache. I disabled primary and secondary |> cache. Still a signal 6. I really need a working strtod(). Any |> suggestions? |> Use strod () in the Linux C library. I will make a new version 4.3.3 RSN. The current one, 4.3.2, has a litte bug. FYI, strtod () in the Linux C library is one of the only two free strtod() which I know work on i386. I wrote the other one before I chose the current one for the Linux C library. Anyone interested to port the Linux C library to 386BSD? I know it is copylefted. |> Two ported programs are waiting..... |> |> Thanks! |> |> Al Rosenthal |> air+@pitt.edu H.J.