Hello,
On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 06:56:40PM -0600, Richard Fillion wrote:
> I was just wondering if i'm the only one that gets:
>
> Fatal signal: Floating Point Exception (SDL Parachute Deployed)
>
> >From SDL apps rather frequently. I get that especially from games. Is
> there any way to fix it?
Simply: They carelessly divide by zero a lot of times. Please file a
bug report about it.
The q&d solution is to compile with -mieee, which masks the problems.
IMHO this is not SDL related, but rather correlates with the
acceptance of SDL for especially games.
Greetings
Helge
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