On Aug 21, 2015, at 10:01 AM, Anders Magnusson <ragge%ludd.ltu.se@localhost> wrote:
Greg Stark skrev den 2015-08-21 14:35:
While running the Postgres regression tests I found that the exp()
function in libm gets a SIGILL with certain arguments.
simh$ gcc -Wall exp.c -lm
simh$ ./a.out
[4] Illegal instruction (core dumped) ./a.out
On a modern architecture with IEEE floats:
$ gcc -Wall exp.c -lm
$ ./a.out
exp(88.0297) = 1.70141e+38
I know the VAX floating points are not exactly IEEE and they may not
be able to represent this value but I would expect them to get a FPE
or signal overflow in some other way, not get a SIGILL?
Well, not in VAX FP. From the man page for exp:
RETURN VALUES
These functions will return the appropriate computation unless an error
occurs or an argument is out of range. The functions exp() and expm1()
detect if the computed value will overflow, set the global variable errno
to ERANGE and cause a reserved operand fault on a VAX.
So, it is following the specs... :-)