Re: floor seems broken on potato on alpha

[Christopher C Chimelis <chris@classnet.med.miami.edu>]

On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, David Dula wrote:

> int main()
> {
> 
> printf("%f\n",floor(0.100000));
> 
> }
> returns...
> 36028797018963968.000000
> 
> This breaks python bad when you sleep(.1)
> 
> I just updated today so I have all current stuff?
> 
> Any Ideas?
> 
> Kernel is 2.2.1 on a AS200

This was reportedly a kernel problem.  Richard Henderson posted a patch to
the axp-list a few months ago, but I found that it's better to just go
ahead and upgrade kernels (I'm running 2.2.11 flawlessly right now).

C