EXC_I386_DIV (divide by zero)

[Ryan Schmidt]

Hi. I hope this is the right place to report gettext bugs.

On a MacBook Pro (with Intel Core 2 Duo processor) with Mac OS X  
10.4.9, a GUI dialog box containing the following error appears twice  
during the configuration phase of gettext 0.16.1:


2007-03-31 22:29:46 -0500

EXC_ARITHMETIC (0x0003)
EXC_I386_DIV (divide by zero)

Thread 0 Crashed:
0    main + 56
1    _start + 216
2    start + 41


I do not see a GUI error box appear when configuring gettext 0.16.1  
on Mac OS X 10.4.9 on a PowerBook G4 (with PowerPC G4 processor),  
though it's possible the machine configurations differ slightly.

It would be better if no GUI dialog boxes appeared during the  
configuration of command-line software. I don't think any other  
software I've compiled on this MacBook Pro has popped up GUI error  
boxes while being compiled.

Granted, I don't suppose gettext is explicitly asking for a GUI error  
box. However, gettext is asking for a program to run which divides by  
zero, a condition which Mac OS X apparently intercepts and displays a  
GUI error box about, and it is this running of a program that divides  
by zero which I would recommend against.


If this problem is already known, and there is a public bug database  
where I could have found it, please let me know where it is. The only  
bug database I found was this one, and the bug does not seem to be  
reported there:

http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=gettext


If this is a mailing list I'm writing to, please Cc me on replies.  
Thanks.