Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 18:01:42 -0400 From: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@conterra.com> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@scotty.masternet.it>, Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@giovannelli.it>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uox, Linux emul and missing things. Message-ID: <19990423180142.B435@dmaddox.conterra.com> In-Reply-To: <371FB41B.B4B7A375@newsguy.com>; from Daniel C. Sobral on Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 08:43:23AM %2B0900 References: <4.1.19990422133009.00b95d10@194.184.65.4> <4.1.19990422213220.00a1bf00@194.184.65.4> <371FB41B.B4B7A375@newsguy.com>
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On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 08:43:23AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > > > > At 02.19 23/04/99 +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > > > >FreeBSD defaults to signal floating point exceptions in case of > > >overflow and things like that. Linux, I take it, does not. > > > > > >Short of correcting the program, I think there is a system wide > > >setting to turn off floating point exceptions. > > > > :-) can you input more verbosely ? > > Like in, explaining what to do? :-) I don't know how to change the > setting, I'm not even 100% sure it exists. Try listing sysctls. If you really want to do this globally, try this patch to src/sys/i386/include/npx.h: --- npx.h.orig Sun Jul 20 07:06:44 1997 +++ npx.h Fri Jan 15 22:42:23 1999 @@ -142,5 +142,6 @@ void npxinit __P((int control)); void npxsave __P((struct save87 *addr)); #endif - +#undef __INITIAL_NPXCW__ +#define __INITIAL_NPXCW__ __BETTER_BDE_NPXCW__ #endif /* !_MACHINE_NPX_H_ */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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