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Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 21:31:38 -0700
From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
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Subject: Re: Problems with floating point exception flags
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On Wed, May 05, 2004, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 06:39:04AM -0700, David Schultz wrote:
> > 
> > Here is a better kernel patch.  Instead of treating all the bits
> > of the FPCR as sticky, it merely treats the exception flags that
> > way.  After reading the source carefully, I'm pretty sure this is
> > the right fix, but I can't test it without working hardware.
> > I also uncovered a bug in the way the software floating-point
> > routines handle underflow.  See below.
> 
> I built and booted a kernel with these patches. Trying to exercise the
> code with the files at http://people.freebsd.org/~das/alpha yield:

Thanks!

> alpha% ./te
> Should be 00: 00
> Floating exception (core dumped)
> May  5 19:00:11 alpha kernel: pid 638 (te), uid 4152: exited on signal 8 (core dumped)

You need to compile the program with gcc's -mieee option in order
to get floating point to work in a reasonable way on alpha.  If
you could try the program compiled with -mieee, that would be great.