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1 total messages Started by Ken Raeburn Mon, 10 Oct 1988 10:22
gcc 1.29 vax: doesn't catch floating overflow in constant-folding
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Author: Ken Raeburn
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1988 10:22
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The following program yields "fatal signal 8":

    #define SQR(x) ((x)*(x))

    double x = 1.0e+36;
    double xxx = SQR (1.0e+36);

(Floats on the vax range up to 10**38 or so.)
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