From owner-freebsd-java Tue Dec 15 01:05:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA04487 for freebsd-java-outgoing; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 01:05:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rmstar.campus.luth.se (rmstar.campus.luth.se [130.240.197.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA04481 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 01:05:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from murduth@rmstar.campus.luth.se) Received: from rmstar.campus.luth.se (murduth@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rmstar.campus.luth.se (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA06478; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:05:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from murduth@rmstar.campus.luth.se) Message-Id: <199812150905.KAA06478@rmstar.campus.luth.se> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Amancio Hasty cc: java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: jikes floating error In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 15 Dec 1998 00:30:31 PST." <199812150830.AAA59220@rah.star-gate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:05:11 +0100 From: Joakim Henriksson Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Wondering if anyone is running into Floating point exception problems while > trying to use jikes. Yeah, jikes folds double constants indiscriminatly (sp?) and lets the CPU find divisions by zero. This will work on linux and the like because they mask it in the OS, but we get a big fat happy SIGFPE :) I have sent a pr on this with a patch atached, it's ports/9061. > I was trying to rebuild kaffe's java classes and I am running 3.0-current. It's probably trying to define infinity by doing 1.0/0.0 :) (Been there, done that) -- regards/ Joakim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message