Bug#203722: How to handle the -mieee SIGFPE problem in normal Debian packages

2004-02-11 Thread Tyson Whitehead
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > Even if gcc will soon adopt a patch to make -mieee the default, > > there will be older versions of gcc around for a while. This is a > > bug *now*, and there's no reason not to add the -mieee explicitly to > > the compiler flags for the time bein

Bug#203722: How to handle the -mieee SIGFPE problem in normal Debian packages

2004-02-11 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, Here's a little m4 snippet you can stick into configure.in or .ac (from my PETSc package's math-blaslapack.m4): AC_DEFUN([ALPHA_MIEEE_CHECK],[ AC_CHECKING([whether -mieee is needed to avoid SIGFPE on divide by zero]) case $build/$CC in alpha*/gcc* )

Bug#203722: How to handle the -mieee SIGFPE problem in normal Debian packages

2004-02-09 Thread Dominique Devriese
package konqueror reopen 203722 thanks Steve Langasek 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 alp

Bug#203722: How to handle the -mieee SIGFPE problem in normal Debian packages

2004-02-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 04:54:06PM +0100, Dominique Devriese wrote: > 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

Bug#203722: How to handle the -mieee SIGFPE problem in normal Debian packages

2004-02-09 Thread Falk Hueffner
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. >

Bug#203722: How to handle the -mieee SIGFPE problem in normal Debian packages

2004-02-09 Thread Dominique Devriese
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