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Date:      Wed, 29 Jan 1997 11:20:20 -0700
From:      Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>
To:        Kenneth Merry <ken@housing1.stucen.gatech.edu>
Cc:        Terje.N.Marthinussen@cc.uit.no (Terje Normann Marthinussen), smp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Current SMP status inquiry 
Message-ID:  <199701291820.LAA11225@clem.systemsix.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Jan 1997 12:15:26 EST." <199701281715.MAA22280@housing1.stucen.gatech.edu> 

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Hi,

>   The question,
> though, is can you run this program successfully?
> ...
> 	That program locks my machine up solid.  (I got it from the perl5
> configuration script, after several attempts to compile the port hung my
> machine.)

I think the problem here is that we are not handling the SIGFPE properly, ie
this program provokes a SIGFPE, which is what locks the machine.  If
anyone has time to pursue this I would suggest looking at i386/isa/npx.c:
npxintr().

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