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Article #31dmdpi floating-point problem
From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 1990 16:23
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 1990 16:23
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The nifty "dmdpi" debugger, therefore probably also "pi" on Research UNIX,
will occasionally have the host part terminate abnormally on some systems
such as DEC VAXes. I tracked this down and offer a quick fix for the bug.
In source dmdpi/c++host/termcore.c (or the corresponding cfront output
dmdpi/chost/termcore.c), add the lines containing "DAG":
...
VERSION(@(#)termcore.c 1.1.1.5 (5/10/87));
...
Cslfd *TermCore.peek(long loc, Cslfd *fail)
{
...
// on 3B20, assigning certain values to c.dbl will
// cause a floating exception
// DAG -- on VAX, an illegal instruction (reserved operand fault) occurs
//
// hadfpe and fpesave must be static variables because
// catchfpe is not passed "this" pointer
hadfpe = 0;
fpesave = c.lng;
signal(SIGFPE, (SIG_PF)&TermCore::catchfpe);
signal(SIGILL, (SIG_PF)&TermCore::catchfpe); // DAG
c.flt = *(float*)&fpesave;
c.dbl = *(float*)&fpesave;
signal(SIGILL, (SIG_PF)(SIG_DFL)); // DAG
signal(SIGFPE, (SIG_PF)(SIG_DFL));
if(hadfpe)
...
void TermCore.catchfpe()
{
signal(SIGFPE, (SIG_PF)&TermCore::catchfpe);
signal(SIGILL, (SIG_PF)&TermCore::catchfpe); // DAG
fpesave = 0; // to stop recursive exceptions on return
hadfpe = 1;
}
...
I was somewhat amused by the level of debugging involved: I used a debugger
on the host part of dmdpi, which in turn was being used to debug the
terminal part of the "anim" package, which I was using to view a movie to
debug an application we developed, which we use mostly to debug military
vehicle designs..
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!ncifcrf!lhc!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.misc,comp.bugs.sys5 Subject: dmdpi floating-point problem Keywords: 630 MTG dmdpi floating-point bug fix Message-ID: <13466@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 1 Aug 90 16:23:55 GMT Followup-To: comp.bugs.sys5 Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 43