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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA2339 ; Mon, 01 Mar 93 10:54:44 EST Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.bugs:37 comp.unix.bsd:11552 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!portal!mykes From: mykes@shell.portal.com (mike myke schwartz) Subject: Re: Patch to fix signal 6 aborts (HUGE values are too huge) Message-ID: <C33s1p.8At@unix.portal.com> Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.unix.bsd Sender: news@unix.portal.com Nntp-Posting-Host: jobe Organization: Portal Communications Company X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] References: <C2Mutx.LKq@sugar.neosoft.com> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1993 10:34:27 GMT Lines: 38 Karl Lehenbauer (karl@NeoSoft.com) wrote: : This is an unofficial patch. It is *not* part of the official : unofficial patchkit maintained by Jordan Hubbard (jkh@whisker.lotus.ie) : and previously by Nate Williams. : If you apply this patch you need your own backout plan. Further you can : expect with reasonable certainty that this patch or one like it will come : out through the official unofficial patchkit. : If you need it now and can't wait, though, use it. As always, we are not : responsible for whatever this patch does or fails to do to your system. [ the following patch edited for brevity ] : *** /usr/include/machine/float.h.pre-neosoft Thu Feb 18 00:02:39 1993 : --- /usr/include/machine/float.h Thu Feb 11 00:05:31 1993 : *************** : *** 53,59 **** : ! #define DBL_MAX 1.797693134862316E+308 : --- 53,59 ---- : ! #define DBL_MAX 1.797693134862315E+308 : -- I applied the FULL patchkit and built my kernel. I checked the /usr/include/machine/float.h and it DOES have the ...2315E+308 value. However, I consistently get the dreaded trap 6 error when trying to compile anything with #include <math.h> #include <float.h> in it. Specifically, the reduce.c file from Xli (xloadimage) causes cc, gcc1.37 (the one with the distribution), and gcc2.3.3 ALL just crap out with the trap 6 error. YES, I did change my config file to have options "i486" in it. The only thing I haven't tried is backing out patch00060. Any idea what else the problem can be? :)