Package: gnu-smalltalk Version: 3.2.5-1+b3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
1. install gnu-smalltalk from debian 9 main 2. launch gst REPL 3. enter 0.05 or 1e-4 4. expected: 0.05 or 0.0001 5. actual: $ gst st> x := 1e-4 Object: 1 error: The program attempted to divide a number by zero ZeroDivide(Exception)>>signal (ExcHandling.st:254) SmallInteger(Number)>>zeroDivide (SysExcept.st:1426) Fraction>>setNumerator:setDenominator: (Fraction.st:485) Fraction class>>numerator:denominator: (Fraction.st:66) Fraction>>- (Fraction.st:151) FloatE(Float)>>printOn:special: (Float.st:533) FloatE(Float)>>printOn: (Float.st:436) FloatE(Object)>>printString (Object.st:534) FloatE(Object)>>printNl (Object.st:571) this error is also present in the current unstable package 'gnu-smalltalk_3.2.5-1.1+b1_amd64.deb' compiling from source fixes the problem it was suggested on the gnu-smalltalk mailing list-1= that this error may be caused by the package being compiled with option -pie; but it is not clear that the -pie flag is the cause `gcc -v` and `g++ -v` both show --enable-default-pie; but i can not reproduce the 'ZeroDivide' problem compiling myself from git[2] - compiling with all of the following flags produce the same (non-error) result for 1e-4 and 0.05: $ make CFLAGS='-no-pie' $ make CFLAGS='-pie' $ make $ /usr/local/bin/gst GNU Smalltalk ready st> 0.05 0.05 [1]: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-smalltalk/2018-08/msg00004.html [2]: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/smalltalk.git/ -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages gnu-smalltalk depends on: ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u3 ii libgnutls30 3.5.8-5+deb9u3 ii libgst7 3.2.5-1+b3 ii unzip 6.0-21 ii zip 3.0-11+b1 Versions of packages gnu-smalltalk recommends: ii gnu-smalltalk-common 3.2.5-1 Versions of packages gnu-smalltalk suggests: ii gnu-smalltalk-doc 3.2.5-1 -- no debconf information
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