floating point exception 8 in awk

[Wilko Bulte]

On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 12:18:59PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> This occurred during the 'make dependencies' stage of the first
> chrooted buildworld in a 'make release':
> 
> ===> usr.bin/truss
> cp /usr/src/usr.bin/truss/../../sys/kern/syscalls.master syscalls.master
> /bin/sh /usr/src/usr.bin/truss/../../sys/kern/makesyscalls.sh syscalls.master  /usr/src/usr.bin/truss/i386.conf
> awk: floating point exception 8
>  input record number 325, file
>  source line number 87
> *** Error code 2
> 
> Stop in /usr/src/usr.bin/truss.
> 
> the sources for the build were top-of-tree, the host is a PWS600au
> running a week-old 5.1-BETA.

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.

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