Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 03:57:23 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, kurto@tiny.mcs.usu.edu, ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com Subject: Re: drand48 problems persist. Message-ID: <199502021657.DAA20356@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Hi, I've seen this problem, in fact I think that I was the first to report it. >And Bruce Evans sent my a description of what's going in a very short time >after (for which I grateful.) The situation is that drand48 isn't in some >standard or another so it's not really wanted in the header files which >are trying to be compliant. So even though you've declared drand48 to >return a double, libc was built with the assumption that it's an int, >therefore when drand48 calls erand48 (also 'thought' to be int) some junk >is left on the fp stack which then blows up later. But this is fixed now (the header files aren't very standard :-). The test program works for me on freefall and at home even if it is linked to the shared library on the 2.0 cdrom. Bruce
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