On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 04:03:29PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 03:43:51PM -0500, "Christopher C. Chimelis" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > > It's an Alpha thing. I started looking into this bug a few weeks ago, but > > got busy with other things. One thing I do know that needs to be done is > > adding "-mieee" to CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS on Alpha. It would probably be > > Why does this fix the problem? (ie, is this just working around a bug > in the code?) The documentation says it has something to do with > floating-point comparisons being "inexact". Specifically, it mentions > handling NaN and +-Inf correctly. This seems to be indicating that I > have a divide-by-zero somewhere!
In all three cases in which I tracked down and fixed one of these bugs, the problem was use of an uninitialized floating-point value. So that's another possibility. miket
