Floats in squeak...

Joshua 'Schwa' Gargus schwa at cc.gatech.edu
Sat Aug 30 00:04:27 UTC 2003


Is this a problem with a VM you are hacking, one compiled untouched
source code, or one you have downloaded from somewhere?

Joshua

On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 05:58:33PM -0700, Alan Grimes wrote:
> Hello, I'm having trouble with my leenooks VM, It totally messes up
> whenever it has to deal with any kind of FP stuff. (I have seen many FP
> related failures in every squeak configuration I have tried).
> 
> Today, I took a fresh 3.6 beta immage and attempted to use "upgrade to
> 3.6 full" and the thing blew up when it was trying to do something with
> some class called "fisheyemorph" or something similar... Apparently it
> was attempting to truncate what it thought was a float number but the
> number had been read as "not a number" (NaN)... 
> 
> Apparently some critical setting regarding x86 FP stuff is not being
> initialized by the current configuration scripts.
> 
> What information do you need to see from me?
> 
> -- 
> "Nobody wants to say how this works. Mabye nobody knows."
>         - The man page for XF86Config, One of the key config files
> behind
> the software driving  the overwhealming majority of Linux desktops.
> 
> http://users.rcn.com/alangrimes/



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