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From: gab10@cd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: float.h, strtod(), signal 6, and my temper..
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Date: 17 Mar 93 16:32:25 GMT
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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?
Check the include files that gcc-2.3.3 installs for itself. Currently,
gcc's enquire program is use to build these files. Enquire does not
work correctly on 386BSD. Last I heard, there was a problem with printf/
scanf in libc that cause enquire to get the wrong values for these HUGE and
DBL values.
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Gary Browning | Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a
gab10@cd.amdahl.com | great idea hits you, and just before you realize
| what is wrong with it.