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Subject: Re: alpha/43567: strtod() core dumps
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Archie Cobbs writes:
 > The following reply was made to PR alpha/43567; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
 > To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
 > Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
 > Subject: Re: alpha/43567: strtod() core dumps
 > Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 18:34:41 -0800 (PST)
 > 
 >  John Baldwin writes:
 >  > Is this a duplicate of 12623 and 17032?
 >  
 >  Looks pretty similar to those. Only analysis of the code (or fixing
 >  the bug and testing) would tell for sure of course, but most likely
 >  they're all part of the same underlying bug.

The quick fix is to build libc and libm with -mieee.  That slows
things down a lot, so I haven't had the balls to do it unilaterally.
We really should do it though.

Drew

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