Wow... speechless.... 
Sure it's not a rogue reference to a 'tan' from somewhere else.
Did you try and trap the math.h tan just to see if it actually links to THAT 
tan from THERE???
I am screwing myself consistently with keywords in shell scripts... BUt I am 
aware of that in the meantime and look for that first if things go haywire 8).

In any case, great job hunting that bugger down.... Hat's off!
Rainer


On Jun 25, 2010, at 5:22 PM, Andy Pugh wrote:

> This cost me about a week of my free time. Do not, ever, use "tan" in
> a kinematics module (or, by extension, in any Realtime code)
> 
> It isn't realtime safe, and for reasons that I can't quite figure out
> the compiler seems to find it in math.h even without a #include. It
> even gives the right answers, but it appears to put random numbers in
> memory belonging to other HAL functions, causing untold misery and
> confusion.
> 
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