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From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore)
Subject: Re: Some problems w/ printer and gcc 2.4.3
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References: <dreamer.740440643@mits>
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1993 04:34:05 GMT
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In article <dreamer.740440643@mits> dreamer@mits.mdata.fi (Marko Karppinen) writes:
>But, when I upgraded to gcc 2.4.3.1, I got another problem. 
>Ghostscript. When I run the newly compiled gs 2.6.1, I receive
>the following error message:
>math_emulate: instruction d9fa not implemented
>Illegal instruction (core dumped).

I am running gs 2.6.1 compiled with gcc 2.4.3.1.
The current math emulator is not complete.  The author of the math
emulator used in Linux has just agreed to relax his copyright so that
it can be used in 386BSD.  But it has yet to be ported.
-AM