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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!labtam!news.mel.aone.net.au!OzEmail!usenet From: starr@ozemail.com.au (Harry Starr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Blow-off in drand48 Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 14:57:44 GMT Organization: Gold Coast Computer Services Lines: 10 Message-ID: <3u8l4n$lgr@oznet07.ozemail.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: slbri1p49.ozemail.com.au X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 I was trying to use chap in pppd and noticed that pppd would blow off with sig 8 (FPE). gdb'ing the beast, it turns out that drand48() will randomly cause a floating point error. Any hints if this was fixed? FreeBSD 2.0R -- libc.so.2