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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