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Date:      Sat, 20 Sep 1997 07:57:52 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        phk@critter.freebsd.dk, atrens@nortel.ca, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, gram@cdsec.com, hackers@freebsd.org, peter@spinner.dialix.com.au
Subject:   Re: Bug in malloc/free
Message-ID:  <19970920075752.19257@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199709191024.UAA12065@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Fri, Sep 19, 1997 at 08:24:02PM %2B1000
References:  <199709191024.UAA12065@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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On Fri, Sep 19, 1997 at 08:24:02PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
>>> STDC only allows operations on auto variables and assignment to static
>>> variables of type sig_atomic_t.  We aren't STDC conformant either.
>                    ^volatile
>>> Operations on auto floating point variables may corrupt the floating
>>> point state.  This isn't a problem in practice, since nothing useful
>>> can be done using only auto floating point variables.
>>
>> You could calculate pi... :-)
>
> I was going to say that this is more useless than usual since there is
> no way to output the results.

JOOI, what does a pi calculator need a signal handler for?

Greg



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