Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:39:36 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include npx.h Message-ID: <20000310133936.B14279@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003102057080.79394-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>; from dfr@nlsystems.com on Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 08:57:18PM %2B0000 References: <200003101756.JAA90710@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003102057080.79394-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
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* Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> [000310 13:32] wrote: > On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Martin Cracauer wrote: > > > cracauer 2000/03/10 09:56:33 PST > > > > Modified files: > > sys/i386/include npx.h > > Log: > > Change the default FPU control word so that exceptions for new > > processes are now masked until set by fpsetmask(3). > > Excellent! Is there any reason for doing this other than so we can emulate linux's bog^H^H^H nifty ability to divide by zero? What's the point of this except to mask obvious programming error? I'd really like to see this backed out. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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