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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!enterpoop.mit.edu!ai-lab!hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu!not-for-mail From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: Ghostscript 2.5.2 dies with floating point exceptions Date: 25 Mar 1993 03:37:18 -0500 Organization: dis Lines: 18 Message-ID: <1orqvu$fpv@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <cproto.733031902@marsh> NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.ai.mit.edu Keywords: Ghostscript floating point exception In article <cproto.733031902@marsh> cproto@cs.curtin.edu.au (Computer Protocol) writes: > > 1. Has anybody found the reason for the FPE in Ghostscript? No. My copy seems to work fine (knock on silicon). > 2. Has anybody fixed the delayed delivery of SIGFPEs? The only way to force a FPE to be trapped immediately after the insn which caused it is to put FWAITs everywhere. This slows down the code. It might be nice if GCC used FWAITs when compiling without -O. -- \ / Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu /\ \ PGP public key available on request. MIME, AMS, NextMail accepted. Scheme White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride!