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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: Clarence.Chu@f132.n700.z6.ftn.air.org (Clarence Chu) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: FreeBSD-1.1 libm, sqrt(-1.00) Date: 29 Jun 1994 13:33:02 -0500 Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway Lines: 22 Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: <772914709.AA07837@f74.n700.z6.ftn.air.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.cs.utexas.edu TO: jkh hi jordon, please comment on the issue of sqrt(-1.0) dump core case. on examining /usr/src/lib/libm, there seems to quite a number of problems related to the math library. while the recent X11R6 use intensive math library functions, i suspect the server got dumped (of SIGBUS,SIGSEGV) are related to libm. well, the case happens in linux, too. the case there is even worse: source code of libm is not available! i understand that it's not interesting at all in making math library work, but it would save developers much time in debugging low level details as related to IEEE floating point manipulations. thanks for your attention, before 1.1.5 is released. clarence chu ... * Origin: (6:700/132)