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bug#11913: Unusual Emacs 24.1 arithmetic error (abs) on i386 machine
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#11913: Unusual Emacs 24.1 arithmetic error (abs) on i386 machine |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Jul 2012 22:17:39 +0300 |
> From: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
> Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>, 11913@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:02:16 -0500
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> Right. While I'm not extremely knowledgeable about the process, since
> that string is associated with Qarith_error (in data.c), I assumed it
> was probably some code deeper down raising the exception (from either
> data.c or floatfns.c). Given the fact that it only happens on i386, I
> also wondered if x87 issues might be involved -- but the fact that it
> only happens on *this* i386 machine (and a couple of others) suggests
> the software versions matter.
Does that 386 machine have an x87 co-processor? If not, what provides
the floating-point emulation -- the kernel?
If you compile a trivial C program that calls 'fabs' on that machine,
does it work as expected, or does it bomb?
- bug#11913: Unusual Emacs 24.1 arithmetic error (abs) on i386 machine, Rob Browning, 2012/07/11
- bug#11913: Unusual Emacs 24.1 arithmetic error (abs) on i386 machine, Glenn Morris, 2012/07/11
- bug#11913: Unusual Emacs 24.1 arithmetic error (abs) on i386 machine, Rob Browning, 2012/07/11
- bug#11913: Unusual Emacs 24.1 arithmetic error (abs) on i386 machine, Rob Browning, 2012/07/13
- bug#11913: Unusual Emacs 24.1 arithmetic error (abs) on i386 machine, Glenn Morris, 2012/07/13
- bug#11913: Unusual Emacs 24.1 arithmetic error (abs) on i386 machine, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/07/13
- bug#11913: Unusual Emacs 24.1 arithmetic error (abs) on i386 machine, Andreas Schwab, 2012/07/13
- bug#11913: Unusual Emacs 24.1 arithmetic error (abs) on i386 machine, Rob Browning, 2012/07/13
- bug#11913: Unusual Emacs 24.1 arithmetic error (abs) on i386 machine,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#11913: Unusual Emacs 24.1 arithmetic error (abs) on i386 machine, Andreas Schwab, 2012/07/13
- bug#11913: Unusual Emacs 24.1 arithmetic error (abs) on i386 machine, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/07/13
- bug#11913: Unusual Emacs 24.1 arithmetic error (abs) on i386 machine, Andreas Schwab, 2012/07/13
- bug#11913: Unusual Emacs 24.1 arithmetic error (abs) on i386 machine, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/07/14
- bug#11913: Unusual Emacs 24.1 arithmetic error (abs) on i386 machine, Andreas Schwab, 2012/07/14
- bug#11913: Unusual Emacs 24.1 arithmetic error (abs) on i386 machine, Rob Browning, 2012/07/13
- bug#11913: Unusual Emacs 24.1 arithmetic error (abs) on i386 machine, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/07/14
- bug#11913: Unusual Emacs 24.1 arithmetic error (abs) on i386 machine, Glenn Morris, 2012/07/13
- bug#11913: Unusual Emacs 24.1 arithmetic error (abs) on i386 machine, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/07/13
- bug#11913: Unusual Emacs 24.1 arithmetic error (abs) on i386 machine, Glenn Morris, 2012/07/13