Hi, Please respect the Mail-Followup-To, as I'm not subscribed to this list, and the discussion is relevant to #203722.
I'm currently looking at the following bug report http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=203722 about a frequent SIGFPE on an alpha machine. I guess we all know the cause of this bug, namely the non-standard alpha FPU semantics. My question is about how to handle this bug: IIUC, there are the following options: 1 Fix upstream FP calculations to not trigger SIGFPEs. this is unfortunately not an option imho, because of lack of interest of developers. 2 make all KDE programs install a SIG_IGN SIGFPE handler. This can be done in kdelibs, and would be little work. 3 make upstream configure detect alpha and compile with -mieee if so. 4 wait for the gcc alpha patch to be included into gcc, which was posted on this list recently. What option would you suggest the Debian KDE packages take ? I don't think there is any very FP-intensive code in the KDE packages, so performance is not really that much of an issue. cheers domi