Is it possible that the Karmic upgrade interferes with dmd?

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Thu Oct 29 16:08:38 PDT 2009


Michael Mittner wrote:
> I've got a very strange problem and I wanted to ask if you guys have any 
> ideas.
> 
> Yesterday I compiled my project with dmd 1.041 and Tango and it worked. 
> Today I compiled the same code again to get started (I sometimes like to 
> just do a full rebuild to get started) and I get this message:
> 
> /usr/local/bin/../import/tango/math/IEEE.d(641): number is not representable
> 
> The only thing that really has changed since the last build is that I 
> upgraded to Karmic today. But I can't think of any connection, besides maybe 
> the linking that could be affected by that. So I thought I'll ask here, 
> maybe someone of you can think of anything.

It could be that the C library routine strtold(), which the lexer relies 
on, changed. That has nothing to do with linking.



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