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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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 11913 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rlb <at> defaultvalue.org
Subject: bug#11913: Unusual Emacs 24.1 arithmetic error (abs) on i386 machine
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 22:35:54 +0300

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: Rob Browning <rlb <at> defaultvalue.org>,  11913 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 21:29:52 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > If you compile a trivial C program that calls 'fabs' on that machine,
> > does it work as expected, or does it bomb?
> 
> It will not bomb, it will just set errno spuriously.

Doesn't it trigger SIGILL or SIGFPE?
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