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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: TCL dies with FPE in validation tests.
Date: 17 May 1994 21:23:51 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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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.

Nope, it's a problem with the math emulator.  I'm assuming that you are
running a machine w/out a hardware FP processor, since the kernel emulator
isn't a very good one in 386/Free/NetBSD.

The GPL'd Linux kernel emulator can be added to FreeBSD which fixes most if
not all of the kernel emulation problems.  See the FAQ directory on the
FreeBSD archive sites.


Nate
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