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On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 10:57:51PM +0200, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > Here's an attempt to squash the glibc _moddi3 negative quad bug that's > been around for aeons. An aeon. Almost a year. (The bug is also > known as [perl #9402] or "Abigail's faithfully failing int.t".) > I didn't feel like writing a Configure test for such a precise bug > but instead went for runtime. Now pp_i_modulo is basically a switchboard > that rewires the opcode dispatch table as required (thus effectively > rewiring itself out of the way). The patch works for me-- I've got > the same buggy glibc in the Debian box I run my smokes in. *cheer* I was getting tired of seeing my smokes fail over and over again. AbigailThread Previous