Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 18:02:13 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Richard Chang) Cc: terry@lambert.org, mcs@vpm.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape's Atlas for FreeBSD Bombs Message-ID: <199604100102.SAA06377@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.PTX.3.91.960409152145.24231s-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> from "Richard Chang" at Apr 9, 96 03:22:21 pm
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> > > I think I remember seeing this come across this list earlier and didn't pay > > > any attention to it, and now I wish I did. The new Atlas from Nescape is > > > bombing with a 'floating' something error. Is this a Netscape bug or > > > something in FreeBSD? Any known fixes? > > > > It's using one of the wierd math coprocessor instructions, probably > > packed decimal or something equally dumb. You can: > > > > 1) Install a math coprocessor > > > > 2) Rebuild a kernel with the GNU math coprocessor emulator > > (see /sys/i386/conf/LINT for instructions). > > What about on systems using a Pentium CPU which has the math > coprocessor built in? It's not expecting strict IEEE exception handling. You should replace your libm with the GNU version. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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