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From: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>
To: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>
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Subject: Re: Current SMP status inquiry 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 03 Feb 1997 22:42:09 +0800."
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Hi,

>> 	That program locks my machine up solid.  (I got it from the perl5
>> configuration script, after several attempts to compile the port hung my
>> machine.)
>
>It looks to me that the problem with the fpu stuff might be more a 
>function of FPU error handling (irq13 vs. IDT trap #16) rather than just 
>plain floating point operations...

I agree, and think that someone could find it by examining what goes on
in i386/isa/npx.c:mpxintr().

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