From: pokornp AT math DOT vscht DOT cz ()
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Subject: Re: gcc-dos 2.8.1 and Exiting due to signal SIGFPE ?
Date: 9 Apr 1998 22:42:37 GMT
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pokornp AT math DOT vscht DOT cz wrote:

: When I use a cross-compiler gcc-dos 2.8.1 from HP-UX 10.20 to MS-DOS 6.22
: the exe file runs O.K. sometimes but sometimes stops with

: "Exiting due to signal SIGFPE
:  Floating point exception at eip=0000176e"

: Compiling the C-program with gcc 2.8.1
:  gcc     -o prog     -Wall -O2 prog.c -lm
:  gcc-dos -o prog.exe -Wall -O2 prog.c -lm
: produces *no* warnings
: and prog runs always O.K. in HP-UX
: so I hoped it is well written and portable.

: Have you come across this error ?

: Thank you

This error is really strange.

The piece of code looks like this:
--------------------------------------------------------
aaa () 
{
  (void) printf ("aaa has been called\n");
  some more stuff
}
main ()
{
 another more stuff
 (void) printf ("aaa will be called\n");   <------this works
 aaa();                                    <------and this no more 
 yet more stuff
}
--------------------------------------------------------
And the result:
aaa will be called
Exiting due to signal SIGFPE
Floating point exception at eip=0000176e

STRANGE !!!

And it happens on both 486 and on Pentium,
so PC hardware mulfunction is not probable.

Oh oh oh   :-(

Have you any idea what to do ?

Pavel Pokorny
Math Dept, Prague Institute of Chemical Technology
e-mail: Pavel DOT Pokorny AT vscht DOT cz
http://staff.vscht.cz/mat/Pavel.Pokorny