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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: pthreads (was Re: DCE in BSD4.4-Lite)
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>Chris Provenzano's beta pthread package based on POSIX1003.4a Draft
>8 with a few minor patches compiles and almost runs through its
>tests on FreeBSD 2.05B.  The test that fails is the
>floating point preemption test, which dies with a:

>> pid 4510 (test_preemption_) exited with masked floating point exceptions 0x41

This message is from exit() in the kernel and may be unimportant.  A
message like it is normal if a process fiddles with the FPU exception
mask and then gets a masked exception and doesn't clear the exception
before exiting.

Perhaps the message should be under #ifdef DEBUG for 2.0.5R.

Bruce