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Re: [IMP-dev] Bug in GDB 6.6



On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 02:16:00PM -0700, Daniel Russel wrote:
> The version of GDB installed on the fedora 8 machines has a bug dealing 
> with infinity when running on 64 bit machines. Floats with the value 
> infinity are printed as 0 in the debugger and any functions which take 
> the float by value all called with 0 instead of infinity if you call 
> then the debugger. It can be very confusing :-) It is fixed in gdb 6.8 
> but there aren't rpms for fedora 8 that I could find.

I am currently rolling out Fedora 9 to the lab machines (haven't got to
your machine yet though). This includes gdb 6.8.

	Ben
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