Simon Burge wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 04 Feb 1999 19:29:23 -0800  Jonathan Stone wrote:
> 
> > hi all,
> >
> > There seems to be a bug in an EGCS-compiled strtod.c.
> > This breaks Perl ("10" gets printed as ":", etc) an a few other
> > things. (someone mentioned top recently on port-pmax).
> 
> Here's a quick'n'dirty bit of code based on part of the perl
> configuration test program:

>         mona:~ 80> cc -I/NetBSD/src/lib/libc/{include,stdio} -c -O2 strtod.c
>         mona:~ 81> cc -o foo foo.o strtod.o
>         mona:~ 82> ./foo
>         "0.0:" vs. "0.1": fail
> 
> I guess the simple fix is to back out -O2 for mips in sys.mk...  I'll
> do that now.

After having read Niklas' mail it occours to me that there is a bug
IN strtod.c NOT in the compiler. I suggest you apply his patch and
change the optimisation back to -O2.

  Guenther