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Date:      Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:59:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: A lot of "exited on signal 8"
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807161359030.21519-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980713202737.20369A-100000@shell6.ba.best.com>

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On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Jan B. Koum  wrote:

> 
> 	Hello again,
> 
> 	I just compiled 2.24 xscreensaver and every now and then I get:
> 
> pid 1660 (discrete), uid 1000: exited on signal 8 (core dumped)
> pid 1692 (flame), uid 1000: exited on signal 8 (core dumped)
> pid 1970 (flame), uid 1000: exited on signal 8 (core dumped)
> 
> 	So, I do grep in /usr/include/sys/signal.h:
> 
> #define SIGFPE  8       /* floating point exception */
> 
> 	So, now the question I have is (and sorry if this sounds stupid):
> can I give cc some compiler flag so I won't get floating point exception
> errors? Or maybe there is something else I can do to fix it? Thanks,

You may be running out of resources; try running `unlimit' before starting
X.  

It could be program bugs too.  Did you use the port?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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