From: "Tom Demmer" <DEMMER AT brain1 DOT lstm DOT ruhr-uni-bochum DOT de>
Organization:  Lehrstuhl Stroemungsmechanik, RUB
To: Ian Viemeister <ian AT viemeister DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date:          Mon, 30 Sep 1996 09:23:10 GMT-1
Subject:       Re: ldexp problems (was Re: HELP: What's wrong ?)
Reply-to: Demmer AT LStM DOT Ruhr-Uni-Bochum DOT De
Message-ID: <E70AD173E0@brain1.lstm.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>

> This is odd.  I checked, and found exactly the same problem (fifth call 
> to ldexp always causes SIGFPE).  HOWEVER, if you leave off the "-lm", 
> and use the non-math library ldexp, no floating-point error occurs.
> As the obivous quick-fix, Guillermo, just don't link with libm.a
> 
> ***Note to whoever is currently maintaining the math libs: 
> Is this a general bug, or is it possibly related to a particular setup?
> 
[...]
I'm not really the maintainer, but I corrected the bug, the fixed lib
is on
ftp://ftp.lstm.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pub/djgpp/libm.zip

Ciao
Tom

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