Re: awk broken on Alpha. Breaks "make world".

On Sat, May 03, 2003, Mark Murray wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> There seems to be breakage of awk(1) on alpha. This is breaking
> "make world". This is with sources about 4 hours older than this mail.
> 
> Doing a "make depend" in src/usr.bin/truss triggers the problem.
> 
> [grapeshot] /usr/src/usr.bin/truss # make depend
> cp /usr/src/usr.bin/truss/../../sys/kern/syscalls.master syscalls.master
> /bin/sh /usr/src/usr.bin/truss/../../sys/kern/makesyscalls.sh syscalls.master  /
> usr/src/usr.bin/truss/i386.conf
> awk: floating point exception 8
>  input record number 325, file
>  source line number 87
> *** Error code 2

The gdtoa import caused awk on Alpha to fail to work with any
script that has a symbol whose name starts with the letters
'nan'...such as 'nanosleep'.  Compiling awk with -mieee fixes this
problem, so this flag has been the default in bsd.cpu.mk since 3/29.
Sorry about that.