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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!trane.uninett.no!news.eunet.no!nuug!dkuug!dde!kim From: kim@dde.dk (Kim Andersen) Subject: Re: math_emulate problem NetBSD .9 Organization: Dansk Data Elektronik A/S Date: Sat, 5 Mar 1994 01:16:54 GMT Message-ID: <1994Mar5.011654.26711@dde.dk> References: <2l2tun$1qk@news.iastate.edu> <vp.762814710@news.forth.gr> Lines: 25 vp@nemesis.csi.forth.gr (Vassilis Prevelakis) writes: >griffon@iastate.edu (William Stoltenberg) writes: >> I get this error and don't know what to do about it: >> math_emulate: instruction d9f1 not implemented >> I'm running NetBSD 0.9 on a 386DX (no math-co) >I had exactly the same problem with a 386DX. It went away when I added >a 387 FPU. Do yourself a favor and buy a 387, its really worth the money. >If you're into self-torture and want to go on using the 386DX without FPU, >then your problem is probably due to a mismatch >between the kernel FPU emulation and the C compiler. Since most xxxBSD hackers >have FPUs (387s or 486DXs), you'll have to fix this bug yourself. Look in >/sys/i386/i386/math_emulate.c for clues. Another solution might be to upgrade to NetBSD-current which has much improved FPU emulation. -- -- Kim Andersen @ Dansk Data Elektronik A/S, Herlev, Denmark. E-mail: kim@dde.dk or ...!uunet!mcsun!dkuug!dde!kim