Re: [OctDev] i686-specific install failure in java-1.2.6

[John W. Eaton]

On 29-Aug-2009, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:

| On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:07 AM, John W. Eaton<address@hidden> wrote:
| > On 29-Aug-2009, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
| >
| > | On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Alex
| > | Lancaster<address@hidden> wrote:
| > |
| > | > which produces the error:
| > | >
| > | > warning: lo_ieee_init: unrecognized floating point format!
| >
| > I think the first thing to do is find why this is happening.  It may
| > not solve your other problems, but this is a serious error for Octave,
| > so you should find out why it is happening and fix it.  Maybe we
| > should make it fatal instead of just a warning.
| >
| > jwe
| >
| 
| I suspect it might be the ATLAS lib does some funny optimization
| replacing fp math with SSE. Is there a simple test program
| (fortran or c) that would repet the failing test?

The IEEE init function is octave_ieee_init in liboctave/lo-ieee.cc.
Run Octave under GDB, set a breakpoint in this function, then step
through it to see what is going on.

jwe