Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 11:51:13 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floating point exceptions. Message-ID: <v0422080db4fd0463b4e5@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <20000321102843.A1455@cons.org> References: <20000321095024.A1011@cons.org> <200003210924.aa02305@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <20000321102843.A1455@cons.org>
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At 10:28 AM +0100 2000/3/21, Martin Cracauer wrote: > It is an i386 assembler instruction. Obviously, operating system > vendors thought it's not their business, but the compiler's. > Unfortunately, gcc doesn't care (although most other native compilers > like SRC m3, CMUCL, SML/NJ do). Note that I have recently heard some complaints about Perl in this respect -- Perl considers it to be a hardware issue, and code that depends on a SIGFPE will not necessarily function the same under the same version of Perl, running on different OSes. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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