Re: [potato] Floating point exception
On 22 Nov 1999, Ron Farrer wrote:
> I am running the latest potato and get Floating point exceptions on a
> lot of stuff. One that I would really like to get working is gs-aladdin,
> it gives this message:
>
> bash-2.02$ gs
> Aladdin Ghostscript 5.50 (1998-9-16)
> Copyright (C) 1998 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA. All rights
> reserved.
> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
> Floating point exception
>
> That's as far as it goes. What is the likely cause of this?
Bad compilation. Alpha's gs packages should be compiled with -mieee. If
you can send me a list of things that are bombing with FPE's, I can take
care of them.
Thanks!
C
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