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Re: ebuild update for Xorg-x11: msg#00027

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Subject: Re: ebuild update for Xorg-x11

Jeff Donsbach wrote:[Wed Oct 27 2004, 12:47:07AM EDT]
> In my experience, the problem is not the compiler so much as broken
> apps. Most of the crashes that I have ever seen and fixed that
> crashed due to floating point exceptions on Alpha were caused by
> uninitialized floating point variables.

Most of them that I've seen are divide-by-zero which is not a fatal
exception according to ieee rules.

Regards,
Aron

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Aron Griffis
Gentoo Linux Developer

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