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From: "Richard Lyon" <rlyon@ozemail.com.au>
To: "Dave Bodenstab" <imdave@mcs.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: NIST ATM Network Simulator.
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 09:41:39 +1000
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 Yes this makes it run.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Bodenstab <imdave@mcs.net>
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>;
rlyon@ozemail.com.au <rlyon@ozemail.com.au>
Date: Friday, 26 September 1997 7:30
Subject: Re: NIST ATM Network Simulator.

Apparently many Unix's mask floating point exceptions by default.
FreeBSD does not.  Good?  Bad?  Well, it's just the way it is.
I find that many application programs seem to rely on the
exceptions being masked rather than being more careful how
computations are done.  A quick kludge is to simply mask
all the exceptions...  of course, whatever errors are hidden
by this approach remain...