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From: paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386bsd] instlling fpu results in floating exceptions
Keywords: 387 fpu
Message-ID: <1992Dec4.165217.907@cm.cf.ac.uk>
Date: 4 Dec 92 16:52:16 GMT
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In article <1992Dec3.205109.23160@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jlwright@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jason Wright) writes:
>Hello all!
>	I've been experiencing the same troubles listed in previous posts.
>I'm using a Cyrix 387 (for a 386-16 Don't laugh).  cc1 kept exiting with
>signal 6 as someone said was happeneing with the ULSI.
>	Anyone else had any trouble with the Cyrix 387SX chip?  I'd like
>(again, don't laugh) to get the mtv raytracer to run with the chip.

I get these signal 6 errors with an INTEL 486 so I don't think it's
related to the chip.