Re: Bug#82873: ceil() severe bug on Cunzen
Sebastian Moeller wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> I havé no real clue here but I guess it is more a kernel thing than
> anything else. At least my trusty old Jensen really needs a patch for
> traps.c to be usefull. I believe the culzean to be the bigger brother of
> the jensen. Therefore the bug in traps.c might affect this plattform as
> well. For the J awk, gs, blender an a lot of other programs using for
> example floor() simply went into a tight loog, eating all processor time
> there was without ever coming back from a trap. The patch I used for
> kernel 2.2.17 and 2.2.18 (well I just stole it from some other place I do
> not remember anymore) can be found on www.alphalinux.org under
> ftp://ftp.alphalinux.org/pub/Linux-Alpha/jensen/install/EV4-2.2.17.diff.
> If dedian kernel sources include this patch already please ignore
> my post, but pristine kernel sources from at least 16 upward need ths
> patch on the old EV4 jensen.
>
> Ahoi
> Sebastian Moeller
>
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Ben Collins wrote:
>
> > Can you (or one of the alpha folks Cc'd) check this on the latest glibc
> > 2.2.1 in woody/sid? It's not s serious enough issue for me to back port
> > a fix to 2.1.3, so if it's fixed in 2.2.1, I'm going to close this bug.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 05:33:20PM +0100, Ivan Vighetto wrote:
> > > Package: libc6.1
> > > Version: 2.1.3-13
> > >
> > > I use a Digital Alpha DEC2000 AXP500 Cunzen architecture with 128MB of
> > > RAM.
> > > I installed postgresql and had some problem, after a long mail exchange
> > > with Oliver Elphick (Debian postgresql mantainer), I discovered there is
> > > a problem with ceil() function, It goes in loop, get all the CPU but
> > > little memory. I tried to do a very little C program and had the same
> > > behaviour, the source of my litle program is:
> > >
> > >
> > > #include <stdio.h>
> > > #include <math.h>
> > >
> > > int main()
> > > {
> > > int i;
> > > double x;
> > >
> > > i = 3;
> > >
> > > x = i;
> > > printf("Ciao: %f\n", ceil(x));
> > > }
> >
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It works perfectly! Great.! Postgres works too (it was the first software where I
got the problem) TNX to all
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