Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 10:44:02 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: peter@spinner.dialix.com (Peter Wemm) Cc: sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au, smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floating point probs? Message-ID: <199701171744.KAA08699@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199701170540.NAA03128@spinner.DIALix.COM> from "Peter Wemm" at Jan 17, 97 01:40:31 pm
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> > After perusing the list for a while I hear that "there are some > > floating point problems with the SMP code". What problems, and > > when do they arise (I'm thinking of buying the Gigabyte 586dx MB soon)? > > My personal feeling is that the problems are of the same order as the > Shuttle Challenger's problems. > > I don't really know how to fix it, because I have not researched how the > fpu interlocking works and really don't know what the right approach is. Call Richard Feynman's son. He will probably put your CPU in a glass of ice water while you discuss the problem in great gory detail... (Just another Challenger reference to match the first). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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