Hello, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Hi. I hope this is the right place to report gettext bugs.
Yes, you're welcome. > On a MacBook Pro (with Intel Core 2 Duo processor) with Mac OS X > 10.4.9, a GUI dialog box containing the following error appears twice > during the configuration phase of gettext 0.16.1: > > > 2007-03-31 22:29:46 -0500 > > EXC_ARITHMETIC (0x0003) > EXC_I386_DIV (divide by zero) > > Thread 0 Crashed: > 0 main + 56 > 1 _start + 216 > 2 start + 41 Thank you for the report. I'm applying this patch, which should have the effect of avoiding the dialog box, without affecting the result of the test. > I do not see a GUI error box appear when configuring gettext 0.16.1 > on Mac OS X 10.4.9 on a PowerBook G4 (with PowerPC G4 processor), > though it's possible the machine configurations differ slightly. The PowerPC and x86 processors behave differently upon integer division by zero. > It would be better if no GUI dialog boxes appeared during the > configuration of command-line software. I don't think any other > software I've compiled on this MacBook Pro has popped up GUI error > boxes while being compiled. Of course, I agree. > If this problem is already known, and there is a public bug database > where I could have found it, please let me know where it is. The only > bug database I found was this one, and the bug does not seem to be > reported there: > > http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=gettext Thank you for having looked at the bug tracker or googled a bit before reporting. And thank you for the report in the first place. Bruno 2007-04-02 Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * m4/intdiv0.m4 (gt_INTDIV0): Avoid performing the test for real on x86 or x86_64 platforms running MacOS X. Reported by Ryan Schmidt <@ryandesign.com>. *** m4/intdiv0.m4 3 Apr 2007 00:12:05 -0000 1.6 --- m4/intdiv0.m4 3 Apr 2007 00:18:42 -0000 *************** *** 14,20 **** AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether integer division by zero raises SIGFPE], gt_cv_int_divbyzero_sigfpe, [ ! AC_TRY_RUN([ #include <stdlib.h> #include <signal.h> --- 14,35 ---- AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether integer division by zero raises SIGFPE], gt_cv_int_divbyzero_sigfpe, [ ! gt_cv_int_divbyzero_sigfpe= ! changequote(,)dnl ! case "$host_os" in ! macos* | darwin[6-9]* | darwin[1-9][0-9]*) ! # On MacOS X 10.2 or newer, just assume the same as when cross- ! # compiling. If we were to perform the real test, 1 Crash Report ! # dialog window would pop up. ! case "$host_cpu" in ! i[34567]86 | x86_64) ! gt_cv_int_divbyzero_sigfpe="guessing yes" ;; ! esac ! ;; ! esac ! changequote([,])dnl ! if test -z "$gt_cv_int_divbyzero_sigfpe"; then ! AC_TRY_RUN([ #include <stdlib.h> #include <signal.h> *************** *** 47,63 **** exit (1); } ], gt_cv_int_divbyzero_sigfpe=yes, gt_cv_int_divbyzero_sigfpe=no, ! [ ! # Guess based on the CPU. changequote(,)dnl ! case "$host_cpu" in ! alpha* | i[34567]86 | x86_64 | m68k | s390*) ! gt_cv_int_divbyzero_sigfpe="guessing yes";; ! *) ! gt_cv_int_divbyzero_sigfpe="guessing no";; ! esac changequote([,])dnl ! ]) ]) case "$gt_cv_int_divbyzero_sigfpe" in *yes) value=1;; --- 62,79 ---- exit (1); } ], gt_cv_int_divbyzero_sigfpe=yes, gt_cv_int_divbyzero_sigfpe=no, ! [ ! # Guess based on the CPU. changequote(,)dnl ! case "$host_cpu" in ! alpha* | i[34567]86 | x86_64 | m68k | s390*) ! gt_cv_int_divbyzero_sigfpe="guessing yes";; ! *) ! gt_cv_int_divbyzero_sigfpe="guessing no";; ! esac changequote([,])dnl ! ]) ! fi ]) case "$gt_cv_int_divbyzero_sigfpe" in *yes) value=1;;
