Re: Trying to boot Vaxstation using mopd

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%update.uu.se@localhost>]

On 2016-06-28 00:02, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:
> Greg Stark <stark%mit.edu@localhost> writes:
>
> > Well the awk core dumps were presumably [...]
>
> I don't know if this is still an issue, but there's been a problem in
> the past, specific to the VAX because of its different floating point
> implementation, where if awk sees a string token beginning with the
> characters "nan", case independent, it'll read it as a NaN float, and
> promptly dump core.
>
> May not be relevant - it's been a while since I had a VAX that could run
> NetBSD - but just thought I'd mention it.  :)

I think we finally fixed that a year or two ago.

	Johnny

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