Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:29:18 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: chuck@pkix.net Cc: freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Floating point exceptions with bzflag Message-ID: <4262C71E.6070304@math.missouri.edu>
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Dear Chuck,
I am really enjoying the games/bzflag port. But every so often it
crashes with a floating point exception. My guess is that the other
operating systems simply ignore them.
The following (band aid) patch seems to fix the problem:
--- src/bzflag/playing.cxx-orig Tue Mar 8 15:03:12 2005
+++ src/bzflag/playing.cxx Sun Apr 17 10:12:31 2005
@@ -5911,6 +5911,7 @@
// catch kill signals before changing video mode so we can
// put it back even if we die. ignore a few signals.
+ bzSignal(SIGFPE, SIG_IGN);
bzSignal(SIGILL, SIG_PF(dying));
bzSignal(SIGABRT, SIG_PF(dying));
bzSignal(SIGSEGV, SIG_PF(dying));
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--- src/bzflag/playing.cxx-orig Tue Mar 8 15:03:12 2005
+++ src/bzflag/playing.cxx Sun Apr 17 10:12:31 2005
@@ -5911,6 +5911,7 @@
// catch kill signals before changing video mode so we can
// put it back even if we die. ignore a few signals.
+ bzSignal(SIGFPE, SIG_IGN);
bzSignal(SIGILL, SIG_PF(dying));
bzSignal(SIGABRT, SIG_PF(dying));
bzSignal(SIGSEGV, SIG_PF(dying));
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