Bug#66190: treetool: Treetool causes arithmetic exception/file open on alpha

2002-06-13 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello ! On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:14:43AM +0200, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > The only thing I can offer, is testing the bugfixed or presumably > bugfixed treetool on my alpha with some phylogenetic trees of mine and > tell you where it still crashes or behaves weird. I'll provide a patch (hopeful

Bug#66190: treetool: Treetool causes arithmetic exception/file open on alpha

2002-06-13 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi altogether, On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Did you just try the email adress of the original maintainer or did > you any further research ? Maybe some group member of the MIT group > can assist in finding a responsible person ? Maybe the bug submitter > (Mrs. Hoef-Emden) who h

Bug#66190: treetool: Treetool causes arithmetic exception/file open on alpha

2002-06-13 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Mike McCaughey wrote: > While not the original author, I was briefly responsible for > maintaining treetool around 1994 for the Ribosomal Database Project > at the University of Illinois. At leas your name was listed as author in the Debian package ... > I left the project in

Bug#66190: treetool: Treetool causes arithmetic exception/file open on alpha

2002-06-13 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello ! Adding -mieee as compile flag on alpha cures *this* problem. Of course this causes a performance hit but this application does not seem to performance hungry anyway. If this application is ever worked on again, the sloppy arithmetic handling should be fixed though. So I'd suggest closing

Bug#66190: treetool: Treetool causes arithmetic exception/file open on alpha

2002-06-12 Thread Mike McCaughey
Hello! While not the original author, I was briefly responsible for maintaining treetool around 1994 for the Ribosomal Database Project at the University of Illinois. Treetool was originally written for SunOS (ver 3.x?) and VMS. As you see, there are a number of problems with the code, incl

Bug#66190: treetool: Treetool causes arithmetic exception/file open on alpha

2002-06-12 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello ! On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 02:07:40PM +0200, Tille, Andreas wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > This is the same impression I have looking at the lots of unpleasant > > messages from gcc when compiling the programm. Looks very 32bit > > specific. > Exactly. On the other

Bug#66190: treetool: Treetool causes arithmetic exception/file open on alpha

2002-06-12 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > This is the same impression I have looking at the lots of unpleasant > messages from gcc when compiling the programm. Looks very 32bit > specific. Exactly. On the other hand I verified that it works perfactly at Sparc II processor which is 64 Bit as

Bug#66190: treetool: Treetool causes arithmetic exception/file open on alpha

2002-06-12 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello ! On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 12:02:04PM +0200, Tille, Andreas wrote: > * Really ugly code (see above). I fixed some of the easy to > fix warnings on my local disk, but it did not help. > For instance there is a quite suspicious implementation of > doubly linked list involv

Bug#66190: treetool: Treetool causes arithmetic exception/file open on alpha

2002-06-12 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > treetool dies with "Arithmetic Exception" upon opening of files. The > build log shows many "Casting Integer to pointer without cast" or > "Comparing Integer to Pointer of different size". I can provide the > full build log if desired. > > The gdb bac

Bug#66190: treetool: Treetool causes arithmetic exception/file open on alpha

2002-06-11 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Package: treetool Version: 2.0.2a-1 Severity: normal treetool dies with "Arithmetic Exception" upon opening of files. The build log shows many "Casting Integer to pointer without cast" or "Comparing Integer to Pointer of different size". I can provide the full build log if desired. The gdb backtr