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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA2192 ; Fri, 26 Feb 93 19:00:09 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!news.univie.ac.at!hp4at!mcsun!sunic!seunet!pipex!demon!robobar!steve From: steve@robobar.co.uk (Steve Bleazard) Subject: Re: 386BSD: cc1 got fatal signal 6 Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND. Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 09:37:06 GMT Message-ID: <1993Feb25.093706.26305@robobar.co.uk> References: <DERAADT.93Feb11012907@newt.newt.cuc.ab.ca> <C2EwAp.88K@sugar.neosoft.com> <1993Feb16.215658.29848@runx.oz.au> Lines: 19 In article <1993Feb16.215658.29848@runx.oz.au> bde@runx.oz.au (Bruce Evans) writes: > >Nope. The definitive answer is that printf and atof/scanf are inaccurate >and turn good constants into bad ones, and gcc trusts them too much. > >Suitably fudge constants have been posted several times, including once >by Karl. > I would be grateful if someone could either post or mail me the correct values. I missed the original posting. If you post them please crosspost to comp.unix.xenix.sco as users of the xenix port of gcc-2.3.3 will also be interested. Thanks, Steve -- Steve.Bleazard@RoboBar.Co.Uk | Phone: +44 81 991 1142 x153 Snr Software Engineer, Robobar Ltd. | Fax: +44 81 998 8343 (G3) 22 Wadsworth Road, Perivale. | Middx., UB6 7JD ENGLAND. | ...!ibmpcug!robobar!steve