Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 22:57:13 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Richard Chang) Cc: terry@lambert.org, mcs@vpm.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape's Atlas for FreeBSD Bombs Message-ID: <199604100557.WAA00768@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.PTX.3.91.960409184525.24231E-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> from "Richard Chang" at Apr 9, 96 06:46:00 pm
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> > > What about on systems using a Pentium CPU which has the math > > > coprocessor built in? > > > > It's not expecting strict IEEE exception handling. You should replace > > your libm with the GNU version. > > Hmmm, okay but would this slow down the machine since the CPU > already has the FPU built in... I'm surprised you have a problem. But the FreeBSD FPU is in spec, but not identical in behaviour to BSDI... specifically, exception handling, etc.. I don't know if the new Netscape is using some strange crap or not -- one would not expect it to do floating point at all. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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