From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 23 17:24:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C367B14CBB for ; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 17:24:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA69155; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 20:21:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 20:21:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Feldman X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: "Donald J . Maddox" Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , Gianmarco Giovannelli , Gianmarco Giovannelli , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uox, Linux emul and missing things. In-Reply-To: <19990423180142.B435@dmaddox.conterra.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Donald J . Maddox wrote: > On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 08:43:23AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > > > > > > At 02.19 23/04/99 +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > > > > > >FreeBSD defaults to signal floating point exceptions in case of > > > >overflow and things like that. Linux, I take it, does not. > > > > > > > >Short of correcting the program, I think there is a system wide > > > >setting to turn off floating point exceptions. > > > > > > :-) can you input more verbosely ? > > > > Like in, explaining what to do? :-) I don't know how to change the > > setting, I'm not even 100% sure it exists. Try listing sysctls. > > If you really want to do this globally, try this patch to > src/sys/i386/include/npx.h: > > --- npx.h.orig Sun Jul 20 07:06:44 1997 > +++ npx.h Fri Jan 15 22:42:23 1999 > @@ -142,5 +142,6 @@ > void npxinit __P((int control)); > void npxsave __P((struct save87 *addr)); > #endif > - > +#undef __INITIAL_NPXCW__ > +#define __INITIAL_NPXCW__ __BETTER_BDE_NPXCW__ > #endif /* !_MACHINE_NPX_H_ */ Actually, I'd like a sysctl of machdep.npxcw, as most others probably would. And the INITAL to be BDE's, too. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \ _ \ |) | http://www.freebsd.org _ |___)___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message