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From: steveo@iol.ie (Steve O'Hara-Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Floating point exceptions
Date: 27 Mar 1996 22:47:23 GMT
Organization: Steve O'Hara-Smith
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In article <4jbkri$1ak@gate.ohs.ie>,
	steveo@gate.ohs.ie (Steve O'Hara-Smith) writes:
>	I am in the process of porting INRIA's scilab package to FreeBSD
>

	There is an oops in my last posting my news proggy put the wrong
email address in. This one is right.

	I've dug into the problem a bit more and found that the FPE comes
from the kernel npx code. I'm off to have a looksee at -current, -stable
and the SNAP's to see if things are any better there before I try and hack
that code.

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E-Mail: steveo@iol.ie