From: Hongjiu Lu (hlu@phys1.physics.wsu.edu)
Date: 08/07/92


From: hlu@phys1.physics.wsu.edu (Hongjiu Lu)
Subject: Re: posting gnuplot
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1992 20:52:23 GMT

Could you please run gdb on it and tell us where the FP goes wrong? There may
be bugs in hard libm.a.

H.J.

-- 
H.J.
Gcc/libc maintainer for Linux.
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In article <1992Aug7.001823.5351@ucunix.san.uc.edu>, zuazaga@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga) writes:
|> In article <1992Aug6.170931.22276@news2.cis.umn.edu> karypis@epx.cis.umn.edu () writes:
|> >In article <1992Aug6.132157.13735@athena.mit.edu> tdunbar@vttcf.cc.vt.edu writes:
|> >>sigh. when i try to run tom lynch's recently posted gnuplot binaries,
|> >>i get a     Floating point exception, core dumped    
|> >
|> >I have the same problem with gnuplot also. I compiled it without a math
|> >coprocessor installed and work fine in X-widows. When I installed the math
|> >chip I get the same floating point exception error.
|> 
|> This one is for real. I compiled noweb, a literate programming tool on
|> my home machine, it runs with no problem. The sources were then tarred
|> and moved to my office machine. The programs die with the Floating point
|> exception. My home machine has no '87, the office machine has an
|> 80387SX-16.
|> -- 
|> Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga                            zuazaga@ucunix.san.uc.edu
|> Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics                   University of Cincinnati