Use of floating point on typical mailserver

Denis Beauchemin Denis.Beauchemin at USherbrooke.ca
Fri Feb 2 20:54:16 CET 2007


Jeff A. Earickson a écrit :
> n Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Greg Matthews wrote:
>
>> Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:05:00 +0000
>> From: Greg Matthews <gmatt at nerc.ac.uk>
>> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> Subject: Re: Use of floating point on typical mailserver
>>
>
> Some quick thoughts here.  Search the source code that you compile 
> (eg, sendmail code) for uses of "float", "double", or "math.h" (math 
> lib):
>
> find . -name '*.[ch]' -print | xargs egrep 'math|float|double'
>
> I didn't find much in sendmail 8.13.8 source code.  Examine the 
> dynamic libraries that you use with ldd and look for libm (mathlib).  

IIRC Perl only use floats, no ints...

Denis

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