Re: aptitude on alpha (again, sigh)
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 03:43:51PM -0500, "Christopher C. Chimelis" <chris@debian.org> was heard to say:
>
> > Can anyone reproduce/hunt down 114270? I can't reproduce it (I think
> > it's probably Alpha specific), and I don't really have much of an idea
> > where it could be. I haven't gotten any other reports of this, which
> > makes me wonder if maybe it could be the reporter's system.
>
> It's an Alpha thing. I started looking into this bug a few weeks ago, but
> got busy with other things. One thing I do know that needs to be done is
> adding "-mieee" to CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS on Alpha. It would probably be
Why does this fix the problem? (ie, is this just working around a bug
in the code?) The documentation says it has something to do with
floating-point comparisons being "inexact". Specifically, it mentions
handling NaN and +-Inf correctly. This seems to be indicating that I
have a divide-by-zero somewhere!
Many thanks,
Daniel
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