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- From: lye@fraser.sfu.ca (Bill Lye)
- Subject: Re: gcc 2.2.2 math lib bug???
- Message-ID: <lye.716436522@sfu.ca>
- Keywords: weirdness
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1992Sep13.161713.8191@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <1992Sep13.175040.24459@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 02:08:42 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Sep13.161713.8191@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> int177c@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Jae Won) writes:
- >>
- >> I found a weidness in gcc2.2.2d. It may be my silly code but I tested
- >>the code with gcc compiler at uni(gcc...not sure of the version) and it worked
- >>fine...well, like what I expected. The code is a edited fragment of a code
- >>I am writing to do a monte carlo stuff. I use exp() function.
-
- >It's more likely to be a problem with the 387-emulator: the emulator
- >does *not* handle under/over-flows gracefully in its current form. The
- >fix is either to get a real 387, check for underflows by hand, or fix
- >the emulator. Fixing the emulator is obviously the optimal solution,
- >but it takes some doing, and nobody seems interested (most people,
- >including me, seem to have a 387). The fact that the emulator works
- >"well enough" for most things makes it a pretty boring project, so
- >nobody has done anything about it.
-
- > Linus
-
- On a similar note I had problems running x11perf before I got my co-processor.
- It would crash (and I do mean CRASH...no core dump, no nothing) trying to run
- one of the dashed circle tests.
- --
- Bill Lye, lye@sfu.ca
- SFU claims these views....NOT!
-