On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 10:08:45AM +1100, Alex Sutcliffe wrote: > I am trying to compile and run a c/c++ program on my woody box. It > compiles fine but when I run it, it dies with a floating point error. > Admittedly there are several compiler warnings.
One odditiy of i386 is that an integer divide by zero will actually die with SIGFPE [1] and your shell with kill it and say something like "floating point error". If you have any warnings about divide by zero look straight at them. I doubt MIPS does this, and I'd bet it works on an IA64 machine if you have one around ... -i [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au [1] See 3-189 of Volume 2 of the IA-32 Architecture Software Developer's Manual and correlate the divide by zero exception with where the trap handler is setup in arch/i386/kernel/traps.c -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
