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Bug#66190: treetool: Treetool causes arithmetic exception/file open on alpha



Hello !
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 02:07:40PM +0200, Tille, Andreas wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > This is the same impression I have looking at the lots of unpleasant
> > messages from gcc when compiling the programm. Looks very 32bit
> > specific.
> Exactly.  On the other hand I verified that it works perfactly at
> Sparc II processor which is 64 Bit as well.

You are right there because it dies with an arithmetic exception and
not with a Segmentation Fault which leads me to an idea.

The alpha CPU does *not* implement the MIEE standard, thus being fast.
Programmers who expect divisions by zero to return a NaN will be
disappointed. But you can force this behaviour by accepting a
performance penalty with a special compiler flag. I'll try that at
home tonight.

Did you just try the email adress of the original maintainer or did
you any further research ? Maybe some group member of the MIT group
can assist in finding a responsible person ? Maybe the bug submitter
(Mrs. Hoef-Emden) who has some additional knowledge in the area can
help location the author(s) or at least some person remotly involved ?

Greetings

        Helge

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