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- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!ames!pacbell.com!toad.com!curt
- From: curt@toad.com (Curt Mayer)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: floating point exceptions
- Message-ID: <31080@toad.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 02:54:26 GMT
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Ethnopharmacological Disneyland
- Lines: 23
- Keywords: signal 6, gcc2.3.3
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- alright, so i reinstalled from ground zero for the 4th time, installed
- the latest patch kit from agate, recompiled the world, so why do i
- still get these signal 6's all over the place when trying to recompile ?
-
- do I have a defective 486?
- am i the only one that gets these?
- should I disable the on-chip fpu?
-
- i see complaints on here about gcc2.3.3 not building
- enquire.c with 'out of range double' or something. gcc2.3.3 detects
- these by catching signal 6. some people cryptically write "just tweak
- the DBL_MAX and DBL_MIN values in this here magic include file".
- and then what? rebuild the compiler? libc? reinstall from ground zero?
-
- confused.
-
- p.s. except for floating point, 0.1 with patchset 0.2 is pretty solid.
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