GNU bug report logs - #11913
Unusual Emacs 24.1 arithmetic error (abs) on i386 machine

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Rob Browning <rlb <at> defaultvalue.org>

Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:00:02 UTC

Severity: important

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #23 received at 11913 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 11913 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, rlb <at> defaultvalue.org
Subject: Re: bug#11913: Unusual Emacs 24.1 arithmetic error (abs) on i386
	machine
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 21:02:06 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
>> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:51:29 -0400
>> Cc: 11913 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> 
>> Rob Browning wrote:
>> 
>> > This was the original error:
>> >
>> >   cal-hebrew.el:819:56:Error: Arithmetic error: "abs", 8.0
>> 
>> I'm sorry, personally I have no idea what to do about this.
>> Hopefully someone else on this list does...
>
> Do we even understand how this error happens?  There's nothing even
> close to a reference to 'abs' on that line of cal-hebrew.el in my copy
> of Emacs 24.1.

Let alone why should (abs 8.0) raise an arithmetic error.  That looks
much like a bug in the system library.  It would be nice to know the
actual errno value.

Andreas.

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