Bug#203722: Possible fix

2004-01-25 Thread Ben Burton
> Do you perhaps know if this would indeed solve the problem ? Cause my > suggestion was more of a poorly educated guess than anything else. Not really - I know little about alpha. I did it for kstars because the submitter seemed confident that -mieee would fix it. b.

Bug#203722: Possible fix

2004-01-25 Thread Dominique Devriese
Ben Burton writes: >> I've seen another SIGFPE bug being closed by this somewhere else, >> iirc, but I can't find the exact bug :( > It was the kstars bug #226966. Ah yes, I remember. Do you perhaps know if this would indeed solve the problem ? Cause my suggestion was more of a poorly educated

Bug#203722: Possible fix

2004-01-25 Thread Ben Burton
> I've seen another SIGFPE bug being closed by this somewhere else, > iirc, but I can't find the exact bug :( It was the kstars bug #226966. b.

Bug#203722: Possible fix

2004-01-25 Thread Dominique Devriese
A possible fix might be to compile with -mieee on alpha, which makes floating point logic on alpha behave more like on other architectures... I've seen another SIGFPE bug being closed by this somewhere else, iirc, but I can't find the exact bug :( cheers domi