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From: cwr@pnet01.cts.com (Will Rose)
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Subject: Elvis 1.4
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Date: 28 Jan 91 14:36:01 GMT
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Sorry for the failed posting - I think I mangled the editor. Once again:
 
kapil@zarquon.uchicago.edu (Kapil Paranjape) writes:
 
>[I tried compiling Elvis 1.4].  The "make" took a few hours (XT -:()
>and the produced an elvis which crashed with floating point exception.
>Would some expert be able to tell me whether (and why!?) elvis needs a
>floating point calculation? (Needless to  say no 8087---here you find a
>disbeliever in floating points!)
 
I don't know why your machine crashed, but I compiled the standard Elvis
1.4 on an XT clone running standard 1.5.10 with no problems.  (I used
SK's suggested options to reduce the binary size.)  Elvis doesn't use
FP - the problem must lie somewhere in your edit/compile/link cycle.
  
>Some other utilities on 1.5 that crash are test, whereis and ps.
 
"Test" is like a Military Academy - bits of it keep passing out.  I've
never crashed whereis, tho', and I use it quite a bit.  (muttering in
the background... stackspace, ecspskcats, stackspace... ).  Ps is a 
nice piece of computer science, and as the Mac world is now proving,
a bear to set up.  It might be crashing for any reason at all.
 
It would be pretty to think that the problems with Elvis, whereis and ps
are related.  I can't see whereis stretching the limits of the compiler,
so have you got a dud library routine somewhere?
 
Good luck, anyway - Will
 
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