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From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore)
Subject: Re: floating exception on netbsd 0.9 using cpicker
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References: <RAM.93Sep18194359@xor.epi.wisc.edu>
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1993 02:50:17 GMT
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In article <RAM.93Sep18194359@xor.epi.wisc.edu> ram@xor.epi.wisc.edu (Ram Bhamidipaty) writes:
>
>I grabbed cpicker from the net and compiled it cleanly, but when I run
>it I get the following error (it happens after clicking on a window
>and selecting a color). Has anyone else had this problem or managed
>to get the program to work?

You might try disabling the floating point traps.  See fpgetround(3) in
the FreeBSD code.  These floating point rountines are contained in two
headers, and so should be usable under NetBSD.
-AM