From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 15 10:03:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA10696 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 10:03:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA10682 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 10:03:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA26660; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 19:03:55 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id TAA18426; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 19:05:23 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <19970715190523.36743@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 19:05:23 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies To: Martin Cracauer Cc: Christoph Kukulies , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape-4. beta - please try this References: <19970715170820.60605@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <9707151541.AA23731@wavehh.hanse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.75e In-Reply-To: <9707151541.AA23731@wavehh.hanse.de>; from Martin Cracauer on Tue, Jul 15, 1997 at 05:41:14PM +0200 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, Jul 15, 1997 at 05:41:14PM +0200, Martin Cracauer wrote: > > > Could anyone else (I don't want to download the big beast and hate > > > Nav^H^H^HCommunicator anyway) try to run the Netscape version that > > > causes core dumps on FP exception on a FreeBSD kernel with > > > > > > #undef __INITIAL_NPXCW__ > > > #define __INITIAL_NPXCW__ 0x127f > > > > > > at the end of /usr/src/sys/i386/include/npx.h > > > At least it has the side effect that Netscape 3.01 (unknown-i386-bsd-3.01) > > doesn't do that floating exception anymore that it used to do notoriously > > when clicking the [Netsearch] button. I had totally refrained from > > pushing that button due to that 'bug' and got used typing in yahoo or > > altavista in the Netsite: edit field instead. > > > > With this 'patch' to npx.h it's working again. > > Sounds like the right direction, then. > > > Now you say, communicator 4.x chokes on this? Hmm. Cannot confirm. > > > > Netscape Communicator 4.0 > > Preview Release 5 > > > > comes up fine. > > Aeh, comes up fine? Is this the Linux version? Nah. $ file netscape.bin netscape.bin: BSD/OS i386 compact demand paged executable > > Actually, what I need to know is whether the BSDI version runs now, it > doesn't without this FP mask. > > Anyone tried the BSDI version? Or did I misunderstand you? I tried this BSDI version before - and yes, it choked in various places - not that it didn't run at all but it was a bit flaky. > > Martin > -- > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > Martin Cracauer > http://cracauer.cons.org > Fax +49 40 522 85 36 -- --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de