From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 19 15:28:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA14022 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 15:28:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA13956; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 15:28:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id HAA17463; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 07:57:53 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970920075752.19257@lemis.com> Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 07:57:52 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Bruce Evans 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 References: <199709191024.UAA12065@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <199709191024.UAA12065@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Fri, Sep 19, 1997 at 08:24:02PM +1000 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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