Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: GCL netbsd/alpha

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  I see.  You know, I think your C compiler is very old,
perhaps even experimental?


Using builtin specs.
gcc version egcs-2.91.60 19981201 (egcs-1.1.1 release)
$ 

Can you upgrade the compiler to something more recent, e.g. 3.3?  This
kind of breakage is quite bad, IMHO, and perhaps while possible to
work around, would appear unnecessary.

Take care,

Lord Isildur <address@hidden> writes:

> hello,
> i have experienced weird floating point errors using doubles and gcc from
> time to time, enough that i generallyuse either long doubles or just plain
> floats.. just one of the odd things ive gotten used to over the years.
> (another is the interesting phenomenon that malloc cannot or will not give out
> more than 64 megs out of the same stack frame..wrap a function call around
> malloc, and it will give all the core you want- though not in chunks greater
> than 64m- but call malloc out of the same frame, once or more than once,
> and youll never get more than 64m successfully.. some temporary structure i
> suppose, which malloc uses, and is sort of broken.. :)
> 
> isildur
> 
> 
> On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Camm Maguire wrote:
> 
> > greetings!
> >
> > Some weird floating point errors.  compiled with -mieee, which is
> > required on debian alpha, but the following persists:
> >
> >
> > In gdb:
> >
> > Breakpoint 3, make_shortfloat (f=Erroneous arithmetic operation.
> > ) at number.c:148
> > 148     {
> >
> > The code:
> >
> > object
> > make_shortfloat(double f)
> > {
> >     object x;
> >
> >     if (f == (shortfloat)0.0)
> >             return(shortfloat_zero);
> >     x = alloc_object(t_shortfloat);
> >     sf(x) = (shortfloat)f;
> >     return(x);
> > }
> >
> > The call:
> >
> >             make_constant("LEAST-POSITIVE-SHORT-FLOAT",
> > 1395                          make_shortfloat(smallest_float));
> > 1396
> >
> > can't a float be cast to a double in a function call?  Do you know of
> > a fix?
> >
> > Take care,
> >
> >
> > Lord Isildur <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Camm Maguire wrote:
> > > > missing x libraries -- cannot compile xgcl
> > >
> > > also, the X libraries in netbsd are in /usr/lib/X11 . It should be pretty 
> > > much
> > > clean Xfree, from there on.
> > >
> > > Isildur
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> >
> > --
> > Camm Maguire                                                address@hidden
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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