On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 03:43:51PM -0500, "Christopher C. Chimelis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > Can anyone reproduce/hunt down 114270? I can't reproduce it (I think > > it's probably Alpha specific), and I don't really have much of an idea > > where it could be. I haven't gotten any other reports of this, which > > makes me wonder if maybe it could be the reporter's system. > > It's an Alpha thing. I started looking into this bug a few weeks ago, but > got busy with other things. One thing I do know that needs to be done is > adding "-mieee" to CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS on Alpha. It would probably be
Why does this fix the problem? (ie, is this just working around a bug in the code?) The documentation says it has something to do with floating-point comparisons being "inexact". Specifically, it mentions handling NaN and +-Inf correctly. This seems to be indicating that I have a divide-by-zero somewhere! Many thanks, Daniel -- /-------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------\ | You are in a maze of twisty little signatures, all alike. | \-------- Classes are first-class objects. -- http://www.python.org ----------/
