From:	Boon van der RJ <rjvdboon AT sloep07 DOT cs DOT vu DOT nl>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Help - Floating Point Exception
Date:	28 Sep 1998 10:48:16 GMT
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Eneko Lacunza <enlar AT hidespam DOT iname DOT com> wrote:
> Hello Boon!
You sound just like my friends. People on the(this) newsgroups usually
call one another by the first name (mine is Robert) [1]

> >> fix it (if this info is enough). I'm using GCC 2.7.2...
> BvdR> Do you compile with -lm, or do you use the standards in libc?
> BvdR> libm does some more checking (if I've understood correctly)
> I use standards... libm is faster than standard lib?

No on the contrary, but it is safer to use / sets errno when failing.
(I hope I say it right, Eli Zaretskii (as always) knows more about
this than I do)

> BvdR> What type of computer do you use? (386/486/pentiumII?)
> Plain Pentium.
That's OK. the 386 and 486(SX) don't have a FPU, so that could be
important debugging your problem, but as the problem has been solved...

> It's strange, I don't understand why it crashed under command.com
> but it didn't under rhide, for example. 8-)

Coincidence? (Don't know about this one either.)

> Thank you very much for your *fast* help! 8-)

Your welcome,
 Robert (van der Boon)

[1] but hey, how could you know which comes first.
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