Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 17:32:35 -0700 (PDT)
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To: rtr AT rd DOT bbc DOT co DOT uk (Richard Russell), djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: Curious floating point exception errors
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It's difficult to know without the source. Please post it, stripped to the
minimum amount that reproduces the problem, and how to reproduce it. Thanks.

At 02:08  9/4/1997 GMT, Richard Russell wrote:
>
>I have a program which compiles with gcc and runs perfectly on a Sun SPARC.
>When compiled with DJGPP on a PC it fails with an FPESIG exception.
>Something very odd is happening because inserting a diagnostic printf will
>sometimes, by itself, cure the problem.  Even more'ing the output can make
>a difference, which suggests that perhaps the absolute address at which the
>code is loading is somehow affecting things.
>
>I might be inclined to suspect the PC's hardware except that the problem
>is repeatable and occurs on more than one machine.  I can find no bugs
>in the C code, such as uninitialised arrays.
>
>gcc -v gives:
>Reading specs from c:/dgjpp/lib\specs
>gcc version 2.7.2.1
>
>Any ideas ?
>
>Richard.
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Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net