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- From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Kernel FP Math bug?
- Date: 9 Jan 1993 20:52:41 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- Message-ID: <1io31pINNs56@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
- References: <1993Jan9.144510.9590@walter.cray.com> <1993Jan9.234314.20990@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- britt@leland.Stanford.EDU (Britt Park) writes:
-
- >I believe that atof() is broken. I've had the same experience and I have a
- >387 in my Linux box. A simple work-around is to replace
-
- >blab=atof(blabula);
-
-
-
- >Inelegant, I admit, but it works.
-
- >I don't know the origin of the problem. It might be a shared library thing.
- >I experienced some really strange behavior with some of the early shared X
- >libs which went away when I linked things statically.
-
- > Britt Park
- > britt@cb-iris.stanford.edu
-
- Atof works just fine. I have a ton of stuff compiled here that uses it and
- have never had any errors. If you see me previous post about how he had
- argv defined wrong, you will find the program compiles just fine after that.
-
- (My setup: gcc 2.3.3 libc 4.2. X libs 2.2 )
-
- James
-