Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 06:59:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de, stephen@math.missouri.edu Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape/Linux on FreeBSD an other horrors ... Message-ID: <200009121059.GAA44483@lakes.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <39BD9106.F4F0B0DC@math.missouri.edu>
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Just F.Y.I. I have found that the same Netscape binary running on FreeBSD 4.1 is much more reliable than that binary running on FreeBSD 3.x. I attribute this to the change in how FPU exceptions are handled. That is, Netscape is probably getting floating pt. underflows/overflows which it does not handle. In FreeBSD 3.x, this dumped core, in 4.1 it is ignored. This may "improve" FreeBSD's reliability. [Of course, it raises a question regarding 2.x compatibility; shouldn't a 2.x binary continue to dump core on FPU exceptions, even on a later system?] - Dave Rivers - -- rivers@dignus.com Work: (919) 676-0847 Get your mainframe (370) `C' compiler at http://www.dignus.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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