Re: Fwd: Floating point exception in strtod()

[Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>]

On Apr  8 21:37, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> Am 08.04.2018 um 20:40 schrieb Ken Brown:
> 
> > Presumably the authors of the code knew that aadj could be this big,
> > because there's a test for aadj <= 0x7fffffff in line 1123.
> 
> But the code never reaches that line, because the condition in line 1122
> doesn't hold.  From there it goes to lines 1131, 1132, 1182, 1187, 1189 and
> BOOM.

Sorry guys, but my reply to this is the copy of what I just sent to the
Cygwin list.  I worked on that with only Ken's mail to the cygwin ML as
background.  I didn't notice that Ken had sent this to the newlib list
as well until now.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
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Red Hat

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