Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 22:30:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@hwcn.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i386/3895 Message-ID: <199805030530.WAA22804@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR i386/3895; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@hwcn.org>
To: Craig Wilson <craig@natsoft.com.au>
Cc: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG>, ajhar@noao.edu,
bug-followup@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: i386/3895
Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 01:24:32 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Craig Wilson wrote:
> > Synopsis: False FPE (floating point exception) signaled
> >
> > State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
[...]
> I have had this problem with the SCO Xenix C compiler.
> It is reproducable with the C compiler in FreeBSD 2.2.2
> It will happen when a routine which returns a float is not
> properly defined in another source file that uses that routine.
It happens when it's not properly defined, even if both are in
the same source file. It is because when gcc sees getdouble() in
main, getdouble() defaults to return int. Unfortunately,
getdouble() actually returns a double.
This isn't a bug in gcc. It is arguably a bug in the fortran
compiler, since, from what I understand, that was what generated
this code when fed bad code itself.
The PR should remain closed.
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