[Qemu-devel] [sparc] Floating point exception issue

[Mateusz Loskot <mateusz@loskot.net>]

Hi,

Recently, I have reported mysterious issues on NetBSD 5.1
emulated on SPARC. The whole first thread is here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-01/msg01509.html

I decided to investigate the problem deeper and with great help
from NetBSD folks, I managed to find reproducible test case.
Initially, it was AWK command:

# echo NaN | awk '{print "test"}'
awk: floating point exception 8
   source line number 1

and next it boiled down to simple C program (see below).
Details of the investigation are archived in the NetBSD Problem
Report #44389 here:

http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=44389


Here is final version of the test program which reproduces the problem:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <errno.h>

int is_number(const char *s)
{
         double r;
         char *ep;
         errno = 0;
         r = strtod(s, &ep);
         if (r == HUGE_VAL)
                 printf("X:%g\n", r);

         if (ep == s || r == HUGE_VAL || errno == ERANGE)
                 return 0;
         while (*ep == ' ' || *ep == '\t' || *ep == '\n')
                 ep++;
         if (*ep == '\0')
                 return 1;
         else
                 return 0;
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
         double v;

         if (is_number("NaN")) {
                 printf("is a number\n");
                 v = atof("NaN");
         } else {
                 printf("not a number\n");
                 v = 0.0;
         }
         printf("%.4f\n", v);

         return 0;
}


On NetBSD/SPARC, the program receives SIGFPE:

$ gcc ./nan_test_2.c
  $ ./a.out
  [1]   Floating point exception (core dumped) ./a.out

Specifically, it's caused by r == HUGE_VAL condition in
   if (ep == s || r == HUGE_VAL || errno == ERANGE)
where r is NaN.

All the signs indicate there is a bug in QEMU.

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
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