From:	cosc19z5 AT Bayou DOT UH DOT EDU (Spasmo)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Problem with Some Objective-C Code
Date:	29 Sep 1996 22:11:09 GMT
Organization:	University of Houston
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Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote:

: On 29 Sep 1996, Spasmo wrote:

: > I downloaded and set up djgpp so I could do some Objective C 
: > programming (or rather learning), yet after downloading
: > some sample code from a web site and compiling it, the
: > program crashed when I tried to run it.  I got an error
: > about a floating point exception with a trace back, but
: > there was no numerical manipulation in the code!  It was

: This is a known problem in Objective C, it is described in the DJGPP FAQ 
: list (section 11.7).  That section includes a pointer to a patch which 
: solves this bug, but you will have to rebuild GCC in order to get a 
: corrected version :-(.

: The latest vesrion of the DJGPP FAQ list is available as v2/faq201b.zip 
: from the same place you get DJGPP.

So no one's put up a precompiled patch?  It's looking like I'll just
go ahead and recompile the stuff, I'm just hoping that there aren't
any things not covered in the docs that may come back and haunt me.

Thanks.



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Spasmo
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