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From: wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: TCL dies with FPE in validation tests.
Date: 17 May 1994 19:27:02 GMT
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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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.

Neither.  The FPU is by default set up with certain exceptions not
masked which should be.  Look in /sys/i386/include/*.h for the text
string `NPXCW' and read the comments surrounding it.

This probably isn't fixed in 1.1-Release.

-GAWollman

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