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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!cujo!cproto From: cproto@cs.curtin.edu.au (Computer Protocol) Subject: Re: Floating exceptions? Message-ID: <cproto.733032990@marsh> Sender: news@cujo.curtin.edu.au (News Manager) Organization: Curtin University of Technology References: <f0XUP76@quack.kfu.com> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1993 04:16:30 GMT Lines: 23 mrapple@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) writes: >0.2.2 running on a 486-50 with 16M RAM. I compiled xv_calctool >(patchlevel 12). If I try and find ln(10000)/ln(10), it crashes with >a floating point exception. The same code on a sun does not. >If I try and get a stack-trace on the resulting core, it >crashes in routines that haven't the slightest thing to do with >floating point. >Has anyone seen this behavior before? Might there be some delay between >the occurance of the problem and the exception or something? >-- >Nick Sayer <mrapple@quack.kfu.com> | "Do you know how lucky you are we >N6QQQ @ N0ARY.#NOCAL.CA.USA.NOAM | even HAVE cereal?! Why, when I was >+1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest' | your age, we ate wood and rocks!" >PGP 2.1 public key via finger | -- Ren I'm having the same problem with Ghostscript 2.5.2. See my article in comp.os.386bsd.apps. Regards - Tibor Sashegyi (cproto@cs.curtin.edu.au)