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From: john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples)
Subject: Re: XFree 1.3 crash (SIGFPE floting point exception)
Organization: Private system -- Orlando, FL
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1993 03:14:48 GMT
Message-ID: <C9zD0p.921@jwt.UUCP>
Keywords: XFree86 1.3, X11
References: <2516@alderan.sdata.de> <1993Jul10.100039.26329@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
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In article <1993Jul10.100039.26329@ucc.su.OZ.AU> dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes) writes:
>I have seen this on 386BSD when using a server compiled with gcc-1.39,
>but the problem doesn't seem to occur on 386BSD when the server is
>complied with gcc-2.3.3

I had a lot of floating point problems with large applications compiled
under gcc 1.39 which went away under a 2.x release.
-- 
John W. Temples -- john@jwt.UUCP  -or-  john@jwt.oau.org