Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 21:36:11 +1000 (EST) From: Douglas Thomas Crosher <dtc@merlin.ee.swin.oz.au> To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xlock: caught signal 8 while running galaxy mode. Message-ID: <199710061136.VAA08615@merlin.ee.swin.oz.au> In-Reply-To: <199710060120.SAA02357@usr05.primenet.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Oct 6, 97 01:20:04 am
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> Floating point switching is lazy-bound. ... > This is a good thing, and it is why things are the way they are: most > programs do not use the FPU, and should not have to incurr the overhead > simply because some minority of programs *do* use the FPU. There would be no additional overhead in passing the FPU status word as the signal code on a SIGFPE. If the application needs to save/restore the FPU state it can do so, other applications avoid the overhead. Regards Douglas Crosher
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