Re: port-alpha/48782: # top [1] Floating point exception (core dumped) top

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-alpha/48782; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: "Naruaki.Etomi" <nullnilaki%gmail.com@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: port-alpha/48782: # top [1] Floating point exception (core dumped) 
top
Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 10:40:44 +0200

 On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 10:47:03AM +0900, Naruaki.Etomi wrote:
 > I'm sorry. Could you explain it again?
 
 I just tried to understand why that change caused this regression.
 
 > I think that this case is -mieee-with-inexact option bug.
 
 It is way worse than only this flag, it seems to me that floating point
 handling is completely broken on alpha/current. This may be either
 kernel or gcc 4.8 fault, but it is hard to tell (if you single step
 through the code, it all works).
 
 Martin