Re: crash building in groff

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost>]

Brad Parker wrote:
> Anders Magnusson wrote:
> > Brad Parker wrote:
> > > I don't have 4.4 handy.  I have 4.3, and it looks like in 4.3 it will
> > > use vax/cabs.s which looks like an assembler version of the C code I
> > > added.
> > >
> > > I can dig up the 4.4 code and try it, but mind if I ask why?
> > As others already have written, the binary formats differ.
> >
> > But a closer look tells that it might be using the assembly version, but I
> > really cannot follow how it is used with weak symbols etc.   Or else it is
> > the problem Matt wrote about, he has more knowledge about this than I do.
>
> Someone (sorry, not sure who) said that the hypot code might be throwing
> an exception by generating an illegal instruction.

I don't know who said that, or why.
Because it sure don't look like an illegal instruction signal to me.

        Johnny