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From: jboggs@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs)
Subject: Re: Serious bug in NetBSD 0.9 floating-point emulator
Message-ID: <1993Sep8.131632.14169@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Sender: jboggs@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs)
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
References: <26jrb8$89i@mudos.pc.cc.cmu.edu>
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1993 13:16:32 GMT
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From article <26jrb8$89i@mudos.pc.cc.cmu.edu>, by mju@mudos.pc.cc.cmu.edu (Marc Unangst):
> The following program produces incorrect output on my NetBSD 0.9
> machine using floating-point emulation:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <math.h>
>
> main() {
> printf("sqrt(2) = %lf\n", sqrt(2));
> }
>
> On NetBSD 0.9 with the MATH_EMULATE option, it prints "sqrt(2) = 2".
On *my* machine it prints
"/var/tmp/cc0001971.o: Undefined symbol _sqrt referenced from text segment"
Go figure.
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