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Date:      Wed, 21 May 1997 08:06:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Ian Struble <ian@ian.broken.net>
To:        Adam David <adam@veda.is>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@hub.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports/3640: xlockmore galaxy bombs out
Message-ID:  <XFMail.970521081334.ian@ian.broken.net>
In-Reply-To: <199705211430.HAA12933@hub.freebsd.org>

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On 21-May-97 Adam David wrote:
> > >   After awhile running "galaxy mode" the program bombs out with an FPE.
> > 
> > Known problem, i think.  This PR belongs into category `kern', or
> > maybe `bin'.  Our FPU error handling is still not even remotely IEEE
> > compliant.
> 
> It would probably make sense to disable galaxy mode in the port until the
> other problem is fixed?

Rather than disable galaxy, a better bandaid would be to fix the galaxy mode. 
Just because before this started happening with galxay mode it happened in
flame mode.  Granted it was a long time ago when flame would give me FPE errors.
 
Ian



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