From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,dcd6a6bea1586410,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-03 05:58:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!cyclone.socal.rr.com!cyclone2.kc.rr.com!news2.kc.rr.com!twister.neo.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Subject: gcc 3.2.3 and trancendental functions From: jim hopper Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: <030520030858096351%hopperj@macconnect.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Thoth/1.6.0 (Carbon/OS X) Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 13:06:40 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.166.209.22 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: twister.neo.rr.com 1051967200 24.166.209.22 (Sat, 03 May 2003 09:06:40 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 09:06:40 EDT Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online -- Northeast Ohio Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36906 Date: 2003-05-03T13:06:40+00:00 List-Id: We have a problem. we have a couple new linux boxes. one is red hat 8, the other in 9.0. when i try to run our radar sim it hangs. finally traced it down to a problem with sin/cos etc. so i created a little program that just calls cosine with 45" (tried both degrees version and radians. the cos returns NAN. so i went to gcc.gnu.edu and downloaded source for gcc 3.2.3 (i think) and built and bootstrapped, same problem! then i went to cs.nyu.edu and downloaded the linux distribution for gnat 3.15p there and installed it, and everything works fine. on the 8.0 box. on the 9.0 box neither compiler seems to work. howoever if i move the executable done with gnat 3.15p over to the 9.0 box that executes ok, i just cant execute anything compiled on that box. Does anyone have any insight into why transendentals fail on gcc 3.2.3 compiler?? thanks jim