Re: Native build hangs

[Gordon Zaft <gordonzaft%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hey, this is really cool.  Thanks!

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Michael L. Hitch
<mhitch%lightning.msu.montana.edu@localhost> wrote:
> The problem of native builds hanging in src/lib/libm/complex should
> be fixed in -current now.  I will be requesting a pullup to netbsd-5
> soon.
>
> This was caused by use of a bad floating point number in catan.c (it
> has a hard-coded IEEE value) plus the addition of a SIGFPE handler
> in lint (added to make it not rely on IEEE floating point) plus the
> trap handler on the vax leaving the return address from the signal
> handler pointing to the instruction that caused the floating point
> overflow fault.  This resulted in a loop calling the signal handler.
>
> --
> Michael L. Hitch                        mhitch%montana.edu@localhost
> Computer Consultant
> Information Technology Center
> Montana State University        Bozeman, MT     USA
>



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