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Date:      Sat, 17 May 2003 17:03:10 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: floating point exception 8 in awk
Message-ID:  <20030517150310.GA26222@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <xzpaddln0rp.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
References:  <xzpiss9naek.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030517113906.GA25329@freebie.xs4all.nl> <xzpaddln0rp.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 03:47:06PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> writes:
> > FAQ, more of less. If you rebuild & install your awk with -mieee from then
> > on everything works again. -mieee is now the default on alpha.
> 
> Yes, but this shouldn't happen inside the chroot since it's using
> either the awk from the buildworld preceding make relese, or the awk
> from the cross-tools stage of the chrooted buildworld, and both of
> these should have been built with -mieee...  though it seems they

Well, I had a similar problem and David suggested the trick I mentioned.
After that things just worked (awk wise that is) so I did not look back.

> weren't, I can't find the string 'mieee' anywhere in the build logs.

In my buildlogs there are plenty:

ds10#grep mieee MR.log | wc -l
   15466
ds10#


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