From bug-request at octave dot org Tue Mar  1 11:08:02 2005
Subject: lo_ieee_init
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Gerald Ebberink <ebberink at KVI dot nl>
Cc: bug at octave dot org
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 12:13:12 -0500

On  1-Mar-2005, Gerald Ebberink <ebberink at KVI dot nl> wrote:

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| L.S.
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| Since octave was not able to send the mail I'll will.
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| Kind regards,
| Gerald
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| Subject: lo_ieee_init
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| Bug report for Octave 2.1.64 configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu
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| Description:
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| ~  * Every time octave is started the line:
| 	"warning: lo_ieee_init: unrecognized floating point format!" is
| 	printed even before the version info. This has been so for
| 	several versions of octave but never gave any problems in my
| 	mathematics (wich is not complicated)

This can only happen if the oct_mach_info::init_float_format function
in liboctave/mach-info.cc does not recognize the floating point format
as one of IEEE big/little endian, VAX D/G, or CRAY (only if CRAY is
defined when compiling the function).

Can you please send me the output produced by running the following
commands in your copy of Octave?

  format bit
  eps
  realmax
  realmin

Thanks,

jwe



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