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- From: jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle)
- Subject: Re: Kernel FP Math bug?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.181416.10858@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 18:14:16 GMT
- References: <1993Jan9.144510.9590@walter.cray.com> <1993Jan09.224846.12403@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <ALSAGGAF.93Jan9183512@e40-008-4.mit.edu>
- Organization: Illinois State University
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- In article <ALSAGGAF.93Jan9183512@e40-008-4.mit.edu> alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu (M. Saggaf) writes:
- >
- >Declare argv as *argv[] as it should be declared and the 'problem'
- >disappears. argv is not a pointer to a character, it's an array of
- >such pointers. The above program would bomb even on a Cray.
- >
-
- *Sigh*
-
- I should check the code I test more carefully before posting followups,
- rather than cutting and pasting between xterms, testing, and posting in
- such a frenzy. That one should have screamed at me the moment I read the
- first article. Oh well.
-
- The reason I was eager to narrow down the possibilities is that I have other
- programs I have downloaded (e.g. rocks, which comes with xsaver) that
- dump core with floating point errors as well. Guess I'll have to get off
- my lazy *ss and actually hack the code some ... :-).
-
- Ah well, the price one pays for running the best OS for i386+'s ...
-
- Jean.
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- Jean Liddle
- Computer Science, Illinois State University
- e-mail: jliddle@ilstu.edu
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