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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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