From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: kkaempf@progis.de (Klaus Kaempf)
To: hjl@lucon.org (RHS Linux User)
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: An alpha IEEE bug
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 02:33:00 -0000
Message-id: <9802091027.AA14118@progis.de>
References: <m0y1GrJ-0002hzC@creek.lucon.org>
X-SW-Source: 1998-02/msg00350.html

> 
> Hi,
> 
> There is a bug in the IEEE math on linux/alpha:
> 
> # gcc -mieee ieee.c
> # a.out
> 7f800000
> 1
> # gcc -mieee ieee.c -O
> # a.out
> zsh: 744 abort      ./a.out

On openVMS/Alpha I get a different output (without optimization):

3f800000
0

It also calls abort() when compiled with optimization.

Klaus
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