by This should probably go into a gnu group somewhere, but since
this is the default compiler included with FreeBSD, maybe someone
here can help.
We have an application with a LOT of floating point stuff in it,
many of the items being inside structures who have their pointers
passed around. All of a sudden, we are getting exception 8,
floating point errors. When I bring up gdb, it shows a line with
a simple comparision:
if (mp->item1 < 0.0)
If I print mp->item1, a valid value displays. If I make changes
to the code, then the weird FPE breaks seem to move around. So
far, I can't find anything obviously wrong, ie, divide by zeros.
Adding a few lines of code will move where the error ocurrs!
Are there known problems with floating point operations? How
about problems with debugging with gdb?
Any help appreciated!
Bob