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Re: Linux ELF
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erwin van Eijk)
Fri Aug 18 01:26:58 1995
From: wabbit@corner.iaf.nl (Erwin van Eijk)
To: raeburn@cygnus.com (Ken Raeburn)
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 00:27:59 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: hjl@nynexst.com, pthreads@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199508171848.OAA00138@kr-laptop.cygnus.com> from "Ken Raeburn" at Aug 17, 95 02:48:43 pm
Reply-To: wabbit@corner.iaf.nl
A message from Ken Raeburn arrived and said:
> Fails to *complete* (i.e., runs forever), or completes with a failure
> indication?
SigsegV. Need I say more? The debugger can't help me on this one, I must
add.
> What that test *should* be checking is that floating point state
> (registers and fpu internal state) for each thread is preserved. I
> couldn't see how to test that in a CPU-independent way without making
> the assumption that a calculation could be run more than once and
> still produce the same result. In this case, I think the equality
> test is the only reasonable test to perform. *Any* difference
> indicates something strange happening.
And it's very odd that one cannot use an equality operator. IMHO one of the
necessary things to have if you want to distribute your problem.
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