> Finally got the problems resolved with Povray running under NetBSD/vax
> over the weekend.  A friend of mine trudged through the povray code and
> found the problem to be in a test against the HUGE_VAL define from
> <math.h> which gets its value from the __infinity symbol in libc.a or more
> specifically from /usr/src/lib/libc/arch/vax/gen/infinity.c
> 
> I've checked all the other architectures listed under
> /usr/src/lib/libc/arch, and it looks like just about all of them use
> 
>   const char __infinity[] = { 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, (char)0xf0, 0x7f };
> 
This is completely wrong on VAX (as also stated in the comment in
the C source file). The VAX FP format does not have infinity; it uses
floating point traps instead. I don't remember exactly how/what this
should be instead, someone that like floating point specifications
should fix this :-)

-- Ragge