Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 15:22:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Chang <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: Mark Stout <mcs@vpm.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape's Atlas for FreeBSD Bombs Message-ID: <Pine.PTX.3.91.960409152145.24231s-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199604091737.KAA05312@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > I think I remember seeing this come across this list earlier and didn't pay > > any attention to it, and now I wish I did. The new Atlas from Nescape is > > bombing with a 'floating' something error. Is this a Netscape bug or > > something in FreeBSD? Any known fixes? > > It's using one of the wierd math coprocessor instructions, probably > packed decimal or something equally dumb. You can: > > 1) Install a math coprocessor > > 2) Rebuild a kernel with the GNU math coprocessor emulator > (see /sys/i386/conf/LINT for instructions). What about on systems using a Pentium CPU which has the math coprocessor built in? Richard
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