Re: CVS commit: src/share/mk

[coypu%SDF.ORG@localhost]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 04:02:18PM +0000, coypu%SDF.ORG@localhost wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 09:37:25PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > On Sep 8,  8:40pm, coypu%SDF.ORG@localhost (coypu%SDF.ORG@localhost) wrote:
> > -- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/share/mk
> > 
> > | I think we need to revert this commit. I see issues with awk on pmax
> > | too.
> > | I don't have a nice hardfloat case like martin in PR 51026 but
> > | attempting to build anything from pkgsrc will fail on checksum compare.
> > 
> > Can you make a unit test?
> > 
> > christos
> 
> Sorry, my problem seems unrelated. I just assumed because it's awk + bad
> results. I'll try to dig more.

a reduced case which shows the failure I had with pkgsrc (even with
gcc 4.8.5) is:
  awk 'BEGIN { print x++; }'

it prints 2.22507e-308 on gxemul-emulated pmax with gcc 4.8.5.
it might be a gxemul bug, too.

I didn't know all numbers in awk are doubles.