From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 21 3:48:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.skynet.be (trinity.skynet.be [195.238.2.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CC2037B762 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 03:48:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by trinity.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F0F9180A9; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 12:48:15 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20000321102843.A1455@cons.org> References: <20000321095024.A1011@cons.org> <200003210924.aa02305@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <20000321102843.A1455@cons.org> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 11:51:13 +0100 To: Martin Cracauer , David Malone From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Floating point exceptions. Cc: Martin Cracauer , current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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, || 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