Re: bonnie++ on Alpha


Subject: Re: bonnie++ on Alpha
From: Dmitrii Pasechnik (dima@cs.uu.nl)
Date: Fri Apr 20 2001 - 11:15:00 PDT


On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Russell Coker wrote:

[...]
>
>That's a divide by zero exception caused by my bad code. A new version to
>fix this bug will be uploaded at the same time this message goes out.
>
>I would like to know why Alpha gets a SIGFPE when the other architectures
>don't! I suspect a libc related bug somewhere here!
>
>
you have to compile with -mieee option, to enable the kernel
handling FPE's. That's a feature of alpha hardware, not a libc problem...

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