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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.bugs:1547 comp.os.386bsd.questions:5614 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Alt. Mathlib "Floating point exception" Date: 4 Oct 1993 19:40:42 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 19 Message-ID: <28pu7q$8ur@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <9327712.6347@mulga.cs.mu.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <9327712.6347@mulga.cs.mu.oz.au>, Mark Summerfield <summer@ee.mu.OZ.AU> wrote: >I have been using Glenn Geers' alternative maths library, fpulib (ported >by Risner@ms.ukyedu). Usually it is good -- more accurate and faster >than the standard libm. However, on some programs it causes floating >point exceptions which seem unrelated to the code in which they occur >(they're not "real" overflows, or divisions by zero or anything). The >same problems do not occur using the standard libm. What operating system are you using, what is your hardware, etc..... Details, I need details. :-) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me