Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!mcdchg!ddsw1!nvk
From: nvk@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Norman Kohn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: merge386
Summary: math is broken?
Message-ID: <1990Jan5.015716.10349@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 5 Jan 90 01:57:16 GMT
Reply-To: nvk@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Norman Kohn)
Organization: Macro Computer Solutions, Inc. - Mundelein, IL
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After reinstalling several times to make sure I wasn't getting
something wrong, I'm convinced that real arithmetic is
broken in uport's merge386.  For me it only shows up in awk, where
I get really strange behavior.  The simple script
awk '{print 5* $1}'
works fine in regular unix but yields garbage when run under
merge386... ON A MACHINE WITHOUT MATH COPROCESSOR.  If I move
everything to a motherboard with a 287 installed, it does ok.
(But there, for reasons I can't fathom, the merge installation
fails when it gets to making the ega image, so I switch boards back
and settle for screwy arithmetic.)

gawk also fails on this, but I can't figure out where yet (source
code is a dangerous thing).

Does this look familiar?  Is merge386 simply unable to handle fp
emulation?

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