Re: [potato] Floating point exception

[David Huggins-Daines <dhd@eradicator.org>]

On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 05:17:51PM -0500, Christopher C Chimelis wrote:
> Bad compilation.  Alpha's gs packages should be compiled with -mieee.  If
> you can send me a list of things that are bombing with FPE's, I can take
> care of them.

Any and all interpreted languages that can do floating point math need it
unless they supply their own exception handler.

This means perl, python, hugs98, guile, scm, ruby, tcl, etc, etc.

Ghostscript is, of course, in this category too, it just happens to be an
interpreted language that uses a lot more floating point in the course of
everyday operation :)

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