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Date:      Tue, 27 May 1997 21:10:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tim.Brown@ctg.com
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   misc/3700: FPE error in "normal" math code
Message-ID:  <199705280410.VAA21265@hub.freebsd.org>
Resent-Message-ID: <199705280420.VAA21638@hub.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         3700
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       FPE error in "normal" math code
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue May 27 21:20:01 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Tim Brown
>Organization:
>Release:        2.2.1
>Environment:
2.2.1-RELEASE (generalized, cannot paste)
>Description:
This line causes a SIGFPE:

x = (1900 - 100) / 8;

This works fine by itself.  In the program however it causes a SIGFPE.
All I know is that the source is old, Galactic Bloodshed source) and it requires -D_ANSI_SOURCE just to compile.  I am stumped.

Other info:  This line will also cause a SIGFPE:

return -216 + 5 * -1315 * 40 / (40 * -1221111);

Makes no sense becasue the code runs fine on older FreeBSD and most other Unixes (AIX, SunOS, Irix, ISC etc)

>How-To-Repeat:
Not sure
>Fix:
In the second case above,  I noticed that the following is being rounded to zero: 40 * -.00112334.  I simply trapped for this and added .0001, an incorrect solution.  Question is, why is it happening at all?

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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