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- From: cfg@cray.com (Cindy Glass)
- Subject: Re: SignalCode 8
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.123900.28244@walter.cray.com>
- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
- References: <AeWI0fa00awJ8YrURt@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 12:38:59 CDT
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- In article <AeWI0fa00awJ8YrURt@andrew.cmu.edu> cy0q+@andrew.cmu.edu (Chad O. Yoshikawa) writes:
- >Does anyone have information concerning the error:SignalCode 8? From the
- >signal.h include file it appears to be a floating point exception.
- >Thanks in advance,
- >
- >Chad
-
-
- Hello Chad,
-
- A Signal 8 - SIGFPE - is Floating-point exception. Overflow has occurred
- or a zero divisor is used in a floating point divide.
-
- This signal, is a termination signal and also produces a core dump of
- your process.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
- Cindy
- cfg@cray.com
-