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From: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu>
To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
cc: Martin Machacek <martin@eunet.cz>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: problem with samba on 3.0
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It turns out this problem was due to the compiler/assembler situation that
jdp addressed recently... runs fine now.

-Chris

On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 21, 1998 at 06:21:17PM -0800, Chris Timmons wrote:
> > 
> > I just upgraded to 1.9.18p3 of samba on -current with a pre-mayhem "safe"
> > kernel that happily runs the last pre-1.9.18 alpha of samba.  
> > 
> > BLAM!
> > 
> > I'm running into a floating point exception (signal 8) here:
> > 
> > #0  0x12648 in put_long_date (p=0x8d03d "", t=890531747) at time.c:297
> > 297       tlow = (uint32)(d - ((double)thigh)*4.0*(double)(1<<30));
> > 
> > Do you see signal 8's in your dmesg?
> 
> That's what known as bug-which-is-masked-but-present-otherwhere.
> 
> It is exposed in FreeBSD, due to our unusual handling of floating
> point errors.  You can hide it by calling fpsetmask() with other
> flags; that will make the bug silently create wrong results, instead.
> 
> You should report it to the samba team.
> 
> Eivind.
> 


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