Dominique Devriese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. > > 2 make all KDE programs install a SIG_IGN SIGFPE handler. This can be > done in kdelibs, and would be little work.
That ain't working, since ev4/ev5 FP exceptions are unresumable, which is the root of all problems. > 4 wait for the gcc alpha patch to be included into gcc, which was > posted on this list recently. It has been added to the newest gcc (but not upstream), so the problem should magically go away all by itself. -- Falk