Re: Alpha Numerical Rant

[Greg Lindahl <lindahl cs virginia edu>]

> The maddening thing is the FPE doesn't show up if I run the program
> in gdb!

You should of course use the new Compaq math library or the new fast
math library, but this symptom means that your problem probably isn't
your math library. You could have a bug which overwrites memory and
does it differently when running under gdb. Overwritten memory often
shows up as fpes. Have you compiled using -mieee? That might paper
over such a bug. Turning optimization off and on often will move such
a bug around.

> Jay and others had a blurb about an "ASN" patch--was that for the kernel?
> Or the asssembler?  Do I need a GNU as update?  

That's for the kernel, but only for 2.2 and for the 21264.

-- g