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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!news.sgi.com!mr.net!uunet!news-in2.uu.net!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problems with 2.1 gcc/gdb Date: 12 Oct 1996 12:13:33 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <53o21d$8p4@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <53gf5s$2qk@sea.waterw.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E bob@waterw.com (Bob Applegate) wrote: > We have an application with a LOT of floating point stuff in it, > many of the items being inside structures who have their pointers > passed around. All of a sudden, we are getting exception 8, > floating point errors. When I bring up gdb, it shows a line with > a simple comparision: > > if (mp->item1 < 0.0) You haven't perchance fiddled with the FP exception mask in your program? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)