Brian Warner wrote: > ... > PS: re: emacs, I had problems with prepackaged emacs 20.3-6 and 20.3-7, the > floating point thing looked like a likely culprit. (I've backed out to 20.3-5, > which works find except for 'movemail' always failing, had to replace it with > my own copy). Something I read suggested that emacs might have determined the > endianness wrong and some data representations were messed up because of > it.
The problem with emacs is related to lossage in the strtod function. I was able to compile a simple C program that gave the same bogus results for floating-point string conversion as emacs. It's either libc or egcs that's going wrong. -Randy -- http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/~gobbel/ PGP fingerprint: 32 8A E8 24 A1 46 26 BC F9 9D 0E B6 81 A9 02 0C NOTICE: I DO NOT ACCEPT UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL EMAIL MESSAGES OF ANY KIND.
