X server (4.2.0) dying with signal 8

["Robert M. Riches Jr." <richesr1 inetarena com>]

Greetings,

A Google search shows I'm not the only one seeing X servers
dying with signal 8.  Apparently, this is an FP exception
caused by a cbrt() function passing a negative argument to
pow().

For programs other than X, I have had very good luck using
the -mieee compilation switch.  This would seem to be better
than hacking up the sources to handle special numeric cases.

Is there some reason the -mieee compilation switch would not
be appropriate when building an X server?

Thanks.

Robert Riches
richesr1@inetarena.com