Re: Floating Point Exception

From: Dylan Griffiths <dylang_at_no.spam.please>
Date: Wed Jul 12 2006 - 14:49:35 CST

Scott Walde wrote:
> So, finally I added testing to my sources.list, upgraded a bunch of
> packages (perl, freetype, too many to remember -- they all depended on
> each other) and it quit bombing. But... now it chopped the text at the
> first space. Finally, I compiled the latest Imager from CPAN, with GCC4
> (still failed when compiled with GCC3.3), and it now works. I would love
> to know which part was causing the problem, but now I have to move on and
> do the stuff I was trying to do yesterday.

Well, I think the underlying assumptions the processor and code make
about ordering and flag setting are undermined by GCC 3.3's broken
optimizer.
Received on Wed Jul 12 14:47:49 2006

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