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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!paladin.american.edu!news.univie.ac.at!hp4at!mcsun!sun4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!terra.stack.urc.tue.nl!tricky.wft.stack.urc.tue.nl!jim From: jim@shark.wft.stack.urc.tue.nl (Jim Rump) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: [386bsd] instlling fpu results in floating exceptions Message-ID: <1fslq7INN3ub@tricky.wft.stack.urc.tue.nl> Date: 6 Dec 92 10:48:39 GMT References: <bdES02Kd2dLZ01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> Organization: Baseline Inc. Eindhoven Holland Lines: 17 NNTP-Posting-Host: shark.wft.stack.urc.tue.nl X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] 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