Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 17:36:18 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: Justin Ashworth <ashworth@esus.cs.montana.edu> Cc: Zoltan Sebestyen <sebesty@cs.elte.hu>, FreeBSD questions mailinglist <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Netscape-4.01b6 + 2.2.2 = floating point exception Message-ID: <19970725173618.48383@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970724140024.4152A-100000@esus.cs.montana.edu>; from Justin Ashworth <ashworth@esus.cs.montana.edu> on Thu, Jul 24, 1997 at 02:00:55PM -0600 References: <Pine.ULT.3.93.970724195242.14729A-100000@konig> <Pine.OSF.3.95.970724140024.4152A-100000@esus.cs.montana.edu>
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On Thu, Jul 24, 1997 at 02:00:55PM -0600, Justin Ashworth wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Zoltan Sebestyen wrote: > > > Recently, this problem was discussed and having neither Mozilla 4.01b6 nor > > FreeBSD-2.2.2RELEASE that time, I skipped that topic. I've just upgraded > > to 2.2.2 (it's very good, I love it), and faced the same problem, but I > > don't remember if there was any result. If there was, please let me know. > > Downgrade to b5 or use the Linux version w/ compat libs. Or use a kernel with the following patch (beware of other side effects though like the system being immune against other FPEs which you otherwise might want to get notified about): ( Cut out of a message originating from Martin Cracauer ) "Could anyone else (I don't want to download the big beast and hate Communicator anyway) try to run the Netscape version that causes core dumps on FP exception on a FreeBSD kernel with #undef __INITIAL_NPXCW__ #define __INITIAL_NPXCW__ 0x127f at the end of /usr/src/sys/i386/include/npx.h Take care that /usr/include/machine/npx.h stays the same. Then rebuild and boot a kernel. Let me know about the results. " > > > - Justin Ashworth > -- ashworth@cs.montana.edu > - http://www.cs.montana.edu/~ashworth -- --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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