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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!olivea!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!ginger.lcs.mit.edu!wollman From: wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: TCL dies with FPE in validation tests. Date: 17 May 1994 19:27:02 GMT Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 20 Message-ID: <2rb5q6$1ae@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> References: <2raj7p$9if@meatball.rwwa.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ginger.lcs.mit.edu In article <2raj7p$9if@meatball.rwwa.com>, Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com> wrote: >On FreeBSD 1.1-G, the current version dies in the ``expr'' >validation test with a FPE. I know that the same version >passes this test on Linux, so I expect there is some problem >with 1.1-G <math.h> or libm. Neither. The FPU is by default set up with certain exceptions not masked which should be. Look in /sys/i386/include/*.h for the text string `NPXCW' and read the comments surrounding it. This probably isn't fixed in 1.1-Release. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant