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To: Dimitri Vlahakis <dcv@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: Netscape floating point exception 
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 07:57:31 +1000
From: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>
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On Mon, 8 Apr 1996 03:57:41 -0400 (EDT)  Dimitri Vlahakis wrote:

> I've installed the netscape atlas beta into my freebsd 2.1 system using
> the port makefile.  Unfortunately, whenever I try to run it I get the
> opening window, but when I click on the window and it then tries to load
> netscape's page it dumps core and exits with the message "floating
> exception"  The same thing happened when I tried running netscape 2.1.

I've seen this on a machine without a math co-processor (a 486SX)
which was using the standard math emulator and the BSDI version of
netscape.

I would suggest trying the GNU math emulator, which is supposed to be
more complete.  You need to re-configure your kernel to test this.

[Regarding someone else's suggestion about limited memory: the 486SX
has 20Mb, so I don't think that is the problem. :-]

Giles