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From: jim@shark.wft.stack.urc.tue.nl (Jim Rump)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386bsd] instlling fpu results in floating exceptions
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Date: 6 Dec 92 10:48:39 GMT
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Gary A Browning (gab10@griffincd.amdahl.com) wrote:
: 
: For me, the Signal 6 problem with cc1 and g++ turned out to be an invalid
: constant in the include file math.h.   The value of HUGE_VAL is quite a bit
: too huge.  They have alreay fixed this in newer releases.  gcc 2.1 reported
: a message (and then blew up).
: 
: In math.h, HUGE_VAL get defined to 1e500.  It works if you set it to
: 1.7976931348623157E+308.  There are also a few suspects in float.h.
: If you get further problems, try isolating the offending source code and then
: change the defines.
:     

In my opninion the sort of motherboard you have is quite important.
How do you explain something doesn't works on all motherboards?

--Jim