Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 19:01:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pthreads (was Re: DCE in BSD4.4-Lite) Message-ID: <199506082301.TAA12479@hda.com> In-Reply-To: <199506081716.DAA00374@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jun 9, 95 03:16:54 am
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Bruce Evans writes: > > >Chris Provenzano's beta pthread package based on POSIX1003.4a Draft > >8 with a few minor patches compiles and almost runs through its > >tests on FreeBSD 2.05B. The test that fails is the > >floating point preemption test, which dies with a: > > >> pid 4510 (test_preemption_) exited with masked floating point exceptions 0x41 > > This message is from exit() in the kernel and may be unimportant. A > message like it is normal if a process fiddles with the FPU exception > mask and then gets a masked exception and doesn't clear the exception > before exiting. The process is exit()ing with status 1, which indicates a test failure. If it was exiting with 0 I agree it may be unimportant. > Perhaps the message should be under #ifdef DEBUG for 2.0.5R. Yes, if it is likely to cause confusion. Peter -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267
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