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RE: grip needs -mieee gcc flag on Alpha



Chances are, this is a lurking bug due to an uninitialized floating
point variable. Have you tried debugging the executable to catch the
SEGV? So, "-mieee" is just "masking" the root cause of the problem.

Jeff Donsbach
Partner Engineering
Compaq Computer Corp


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Larrick [mailto:dougl@charter.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 10:15 AM
> To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Fwd: grip needs -mieee gcc flag on Alpha
> 
> 
> FYI, submitted by me as bug #127231.
> 
> -Doug
> 
> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 11:39:10 -0500
> From: Doug Larrick <doug@jekyl.ddts.net>
> Reply-To: Doug Larrick <doug@jekyl.ddts.net>
> Subject: grip needs -mieee gcc flag on Alpha
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
> 
> Package: grip
> Version: 2.96-4
> Severity: important
> 
> grip needs to supply '-mieee' as part of CFLAGS on the Alpha platform,
> otherwise it dies with 'Floating point exception' when 
> starting to rip.
> 
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: 3.0
> Architecture: alpha
> Kernel: Linux jekyl 2.4.16 #1 Mon Dec 3 21:36:56 EST 2001 alpha
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=
> 
> Versions of packages grip depends on:
> ii  libc6.1                       2.2.4-7    GNU C Library: 
> Shared libraries an
> ii  libcdparanoia0                3a9.8-4    Shared libraries 
> for cdparanoia (r
> ii  libglib1.2                    1.2.10-3   The GLib library 
> of C routines
> ii  libgtk1.2                     1.2.10-9   The GIMP Toolkit 
> set of widgets fo
> ii  xlibs                         4.1.0-11   X Window System 
> client libraries
> 
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