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Berkeley client + floating point exception
- Subject: Berkeley client + floating point exception
- From: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- Date: 20 May 93 23:51:41 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
I get a floating point exception every once in a while with the Berkeley
client. From previous experience, I have a feeling this is because our
MAXDOUBLE is like 7e+75 instead of 1e+308 (64 bit vs 128 bit; it causes
ghostscript to bail on certain kinds of files). My best guess so far is
the lag-o-meter, since it only dies when the meter is up and I hit a
particularly nasty chunk o' lag.
Anybody else seeing this? Probably not, since it appears most workstations
these days have the larger IEEE floating point.
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fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
[ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]