Re: Floating pt error on NeXT

• Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 09:34:40 PST
• From:
  Pavel Curtis <pavel@parc.xerox.com>
• Cc: moo-cows@parc.xerox.com
• In-reply-to: Hank Hughes's message of "Thu, 07 Mar 1996 08:40:20 PST" <199603071640.LAA15847@fuji.ccs.neu.edu>

Hank Hughes writes:
> 	Compiling 1.8b3 on NeXTstep worked fine. However, running
> 	the executable produces a snag: "Floating point exception"
> 	I know, I know. "Nextstep, what the?!" But it's a real
> 	idle machine and would be the only place to practice on.
> 
> 	Tracing it down using gdb showed, the error comes from
> 	malloc() in storage.c:

This is a *very* unlikely place to have generated this signal.  I suspect
either some truly nasty bug in NeXTstep, some kind of memory smash that's later
confusing GDB, or a misreading of the GDB output.  I don't know what I can do
about it if it only crashes on NeXTstep and the debugger is lying to us about
where it's going wrong...

	Pavel

• Floating pt error on NeXT
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