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Date: Thursday, November 21, 1991 - 6:13 am

And here's the weekly bug-report again (although this time it's mostly
harmless "features").

The current gcc for linux is buggy: it doesn't recognise exponents after
a floating point number.  This isn't gcc's fault: my library-routines
are buggy.  I've corrected this (I think this one routine was from the
estdio suite), and my gcc now handles the correctly.  I hope that nobody
minds very much, and I'll upgrade the thing at the same time with
version 0.11.  These kind of library bugs will hopefully disappear with
the GNU libc.a: I have a pre-release, and will slowly incorporate parts
of it.  I hope arl will port the whole thing some day. 

fifos can be made, but they aren't really supported. Sorry. I don't
think they will be supported in the next release either: be patient (or
implement them yourself: I'll be happy to use your code)

Creating a new file ignores the current euid and egid, and all files
will be owned by root/root. You don't ordinarily notice this, as you
cannot be other than root without some hacking.

Then to some happier things: I seem to have gotten the 287-support
working. nicholas@whatever is porting the bsd math-functions to linux,
and will make different libraries for none/287/387.

		Linus
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