Re: pbulk bootstrap: `awk` running into FP overflow during bison build (Grater picture: How to bootstrap pkgsrc / pbulk?)

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> awk: floating point exception: Floating point overflow

It's a guess, but, this _could_ be an attempt to use a value like
1.5e308, within range for IEEE 64-bit but well out of VAX D-float range
(VAX F-float and D-float range are both approximately that of IEEE
32-bit).  If so, someone is probably trying for "larger than any
possible actual value".

Beyond that speculation, I don't know.  My VAX experience is decades
rusty, except for a little emulation.

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