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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Alt. Mathlib "Floating point exception"
Date: 4 Oct 1993 19:40:42 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <9327712.6347@mulga.cs.mu.oz.au>,
Mark Summerfield <summer@ee.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
>I have been using Glenn Geers' alternative maths library, fpulib (ported
>by Risner@ms.ukyedu).  Usually it is good -- more accurate and faster
>than the standard libm.  However, on some programs it causes floating
>point exceptions which seem unrelated to the code in which they occur
>(they're not "real" overflows, or divisions by zero or anything).  The
>same problems do not occur using the standard libm.

What operating system are you using, what is your hardware, etc.....

Details, I need details. :-)

Nate
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