Bug#203722: How to handle the -mieee SIGFPE problem in normal Debian packages
Dominique Devriese <devriese@kde.org> writes:
> I'm currently looking at the following bug report
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=203722 about a
> frequent SIGFPE on an alpha machine. I guess we all know the cause
> of this bug, namely the non-standard alpha FPU semantics.
>
> 2 make all KDE programs install a SIG_IGN SIGFPE handler. This can be
> done in kdelibs, and would be little work.
That ain't working, since ev4/ev5 FP exceptions are unresumable, which
is the root of all problems.
> 4 wait for the gcc alpha patch to be included into gcc, which was
> posted on this list recently.
It has been added to the newest gcc (but not upstream), so the problem
should magically go away all by itself.
--
Falk
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