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| From: | Aron Griffis <agriffis@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-alpha@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-alpha] ebuild update for Xorg-x11 | ||
| Date: | Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:25:05 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20041027142322.GH11400@time.flatmonk.org | ||
| In Reply to: | RE: [gentoo-alpha] ebuild update for Xorg-x11 by Jeff Donsbach |
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| 1 | Jeff Donsbach wrote:[Wed Oct 27 2004, 12:47:07AM EDT] |
| 2 | > In my experience, the problem is not the compiler so much as broken |
| 3 | > apps. Most of the crashes that I have ever seen and fixed that |
| 4 | > crashed due to floating point exceptions on Alpha were caused by |
| 5 | > uninitialized floating point variables. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Most of them that I've seen are divide-by-zero which is not a fatal |
| 8 | exception according to ieee rules. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | Regards, |
| 11 | Aron |
| 12 | |
| 13 | -- |
| 14 | Aron Griffis |
| 15 | Gentoo Linux Developer |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-alpha] ebuild update for Xorg-x11 | Jeff Donsbach <jeff_donsbach@×××××.com> |