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From: spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: FP exceptions
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Date: 2 Sep 92 16:52:40 GMT
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Can someone give me some info on floating point exceptions. A program I
have, which works fine on other unix boxes and even worked on 386bsd
0.0, has now decided to give fp-exceptions under 0.1. If I can get
enough help I'll track the problem down but at the moment I don't even
know what the possible causes of exceptions are?

I couldn't use install because of an fp-exception so there may be some
difference with my board. If so, I'm going to have to find a fix.
Since this didn't happen with 0.0 does anyone know what has been changed
as this would be a good place to start.
-- 
  Paul Richards at Cardiff university, UK.

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