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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5491 ; Fri, 01 Jan 93 01:47:02 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!uunet!UB.com!quack!dfox From: dfox@quack.sac.ca.us (David Fox) Subject: [386BSD] Floating point exceptions with Cyrix Message-ID: <fW1PkfZ@quack.sac.ca.us> Keywords: floating point Cyrix NDP Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'. Date: 24 Dec 1992 02:49:16 UTC Lines: 16 Hi everyone. I just bought a Cyrix 387-SX math coprocessor and installed it a few hours ago. When I brought up 386BSD it recognizes the chip fine, and some programs (whetstone benchmark, sc) seem to run fine with it. However, ps -aux barfs with "floating exception" immediately after printing the first report line. ps -aux worked fine (but slow) without the coprocessor. Another program I've been trying to get working (almost useless to try it without a math chip) is ephem and it also barfs with a floating point exception. Why does this happen? Do I need to recompile anything?