Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 12:53:00 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com>, Dan Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for review: getcontext, setcontext, etc Message-ID: <3C3F50AC.D8187873@mindspring.com> References: <20020112054041.J3330-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <3C3F455B.86856045@mindspring.com> <15423.17965.472722.218250@caddis.yogotech.com> <20020111122109.J7984@elvis.mu.org> <15423.18986.412590.932780@caddis.yogotech.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Nate Williams wrote: > > Shouldn't you be able to catch divide by zero? Or am I missing > > something here? > > I don't know what Bruce is saying anymore. I do know that a DIVBYZERO > exception is no longer generated (by default). Whether or not it can be > correctly generated/caught is another story. I think we were IEEE-ified to death, by use of the Linux interpretation of the default masks, which are less useful than the FreeBSD (past) version. I think that a divide by zero ends up yielding NaN now, instead of an exception. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3C3F50AC.D8187873>