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RE: Bugs encountered when porting cURL

From: Nielsen Linus <Linus.Nielsen_at_elema.siemens.se>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 08:55:23 +0200

> Hello,
> I struggled to find any email address for cURL, and this
> seems to be the best.

As good as anyone... :-)

> I have recently ported cURL 7.8 to RISC OS (4.02).

Me likes it! It's always nice with new ports.

> After posting the binary on my website I got a problem
> report from a user:
> Commands such as
> curl -w 'Downloaded %{size_download} bytes' www.quantumsoft.co.uk
> curl -I -w '%{size_header}' www.cnn.com
> crashes the program with an EMT trap.
> but
> curl -I -w '%{http_code}' www.cnn.com
> doesn't.
>
> I am aware it's probably not a bug, but have you any ideas about what
> may be causing this?

Ok. First of all, what is EMT?
The size_xxx variables are internally floating point numbers.
Maybe the floating point code is broken.
Did you get any warnings or anything from autoconf or the compiler?
The output code is in src/writeout.c.

/Linus
Received on 2001-07-09