Re: aptitude on alpha (again, sigh)
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 04:03:29PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 03:43:51PM -0500, "Christopher C. Chimelis" <chris@debian.org> was heard to say:
> >
> > 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!
In all three cases in which I tracked down and fixed one of these bugs,
the problem was use of an uninitialized floating-point value. So that's
another possibility.
miket
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