Package: libc6.1 Version: 2.3.1-16 Severity: normal Consider the following program:
#include <stdio.h> #include <math.h> int main (void) { double x = ldexp (1.0, -1038); fprintf (stderr, "%g\n", x); fprintf (stderr, "%g\n", x + 1.0); return 0; } When compiled and run, I get: $ ./tst 3.39519e-313 zsh: floating point exception (core dumped) ./tst -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: alpha Kernel: Linux lepois 2.4.20 #3 Thu Apr 17 10:56:21 CEST 2003 alpha Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 Versions of packages libc6.1 depends on: ii libdb1-compat 2.1.3-7 The Berkeley database routines [gl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]