floating point exception 8 in awk

[Dag-Erling Smorgrav]

Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des at ofug.org> writes:
> Wilko Bulte <wkb at freebie.xs4all.nl> writes:
> > FAQ, more of less. If you rebuild & install your awk with -mieee from then
> > on everything works again. -mieee is now the default on alpha.
> Yes, but this shouldn't happen inside the chroot since it's using
> either the awk from the buildworld preceding make relese, or the awk
> from the cross-tools stage of the chrooted buildworld, and both of
> these should have been built with -mieee...  though it seems they
> weren't, I can't find the string 'mieee' anywhere in the build logs.

Grrr...  found the bug: bsd.sys.mk adds -mieee to the _CPUCFLAGS
variable, which is ignored if NO_CPU_CFLAGS is set.  This is arguably
a bug since _CPUCFLAGS is supposed to control optimization, not
correctness, and setting NO_CPU_CFLAGS should improve correctness at
the expense of performance and not the other way around.

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des at ofug.org