Re: aptitude on alpha (again, sigh)

2002-02-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
Just so everyone knows, I think I've found the problem. The debugging in the default compile was throwing us all off. The error was happening on the following line: unsigned long ETA=(unsigned long)((TotalBytes-CurrentBytes)/CurrentCPS); If you stare at this, you'll realize that CurrentCP

Re: aptitude on alpha (again, sigh)

2002-02-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 09:22:49AM -0500, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 11:00:51PM +0100, Falk Hueffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > > Can anyone reproduce/hunt down 114270? I can't reproduce it (I think > > > it's probably Alpha

Re: aptitude on alpha (again, sigh)

2002-02-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 11:00:51PM +0100, Falk Hueffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > Can anyone reproduce/hunt down 114270? I can't reproduce it (I think > > it's probably Alpha specific), and I don't really have much of an > > idea where it could be. I haven't gotten any other re

Re: aptitude on alpha (again, sigh)

2001-11-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
Actually, I don't think I can effectively come up with a patch for this. (the infinite loop) I don't even know what area of code to look at, and I can't debug on a live system since I have no alpha. Would it be possible for someone on alpha to find out what's going on and send me either a pa

RE: aptitude on alpha (again, sigh)

2001-11-09 Thread Donsbach, Jeff
Goswin Brederlow wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% cat foo.cc > #include > #include > > int main() { > double d = 1.0 + sqrt(-1.0); > } > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% g++ -o foo foo.cc > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% ./foo > zsh: floating point exception ./foo > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~

Re: aptitude on alpha (again, sigh)

2001-11-08 Thread Stefan Schroepfer
Goswin Brederlow wrote: > "Donsbach, Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>98 times out of 100, Floating Point Exception errors on Alpha are caused >>by either an uninitialized floating point variable (that happens to have >>random garbage in it) being used in a calculation, or a floating point >

Re: aptitude on alpha (again, sigh)

2001-11-08 Thread Goswin Brederlow
"Donsbach, Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 98 times out of 100, Floating Point Exception errors on Alpha are caused > by either an uninitialized floating point variable (that happens to have > random garbage in it) being used in a calculation, or a floating point > "divide by zero" operation.

RE: aptitude on alpha (again, sigh)

2001-11-08 Thread Donsbach, Jeff
g > Subject: Re: aptitude on alpha (again, sigh) > > > 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: > > > > > &g

Re: aptitude on alpha (again, sigh)

2001-11-07 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
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 thi

Re: aptitude on alpha (again, sigh)

2001-11-02 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Daniel Burrows wrote: Can anyone reproduce/hunt down 114270? I can't reproduce it (I think it's probably Alpha specific), and I don't really have much of an idea where it could be. I haven't gotten any other reports of this, which makes me wonde

Re: aptitude on alpha (again, sigh)

2001-11-01 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 11:00:51PM +0100, Falk Hueffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Can anyone reproduce/hunt down 114270? I can't reproduce it (I think > > it's probably Alpha specific), and I don't really have much of an > > idea w

Re: aptitude on alpha (again, sigh)

2001-11-01 Thread Falk Hueffner
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone reproduce/hunt down 114270? I can't reproduce it (I think > it's probably Alpha specific), and I don't really have much of an > idea where it could be. I haven't gotten any other reports of this, > which makes me wonder if maybe it could

Re: aptitude on alpha (again, sigh)

2001-11-01 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Daniel Burrows wrote: > 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. Th

Re: aptitude on alpha (again, sigh)

2001-11-01 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 03:43:51PM -0500, "Christopher C. Chimelis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > Can anyone reproduce/hunt down 114270? I can't reproduce it (I think > > it's probably Alpha specific), and I don't really have much of an idea > > where it could be. I haven't gott

Re: aptitude on alpha (again, sigh)

2001-11-01 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Daniel Burrows wrote: > Can anyone reproduce/hunt down 114270? I can't reproduce it (I think > it's probably Alpha specific), and I don't really have much of an idea > where it could be. I haven't gotten any other reports of this, which > makes me wonder if maybe it could