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From: dresselh@rft30.nas.nasa.gov (Eliot Dresselhaus)
Subject: Floating point trap woes on 386BSD
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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 20:45:45 GMT
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Has anyone managed to get enquire.c to compile from the GCC 2.3 dist.
I fear it is triggering bugs in the kernel's handling of floating point
exceptions.  Can anyone shed light on this?

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- eliot
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