egcs - gcc on alpha bug

Alexandre Oliva oliva@dcc.unicamp.br
Thu Mar 5 17:55:00 GMT 1998


pper  writes:

> On our AlphaStation the following program results in an SIGFPE on the marked
> line at the second time the function is entered !

Which is correct.  Since point is not initialized, behavior is
undefined.  When kriterium() is called for the second time, point
probably contains a bit pattern that does not represent a valid
floating point number.

-- 
Alexandre Oliva
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil



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