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Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:29:18 -0500
From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
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Subject: Floating point exceptions with bzflag
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Dear Chuck,

I am really enjoying the games/bzflag port.  But every so often it 
crashes with a floating point exception.  My guess is that the other 
operating systems simply ignore them.

The following (band aid) patch seems to fix the problem:

--- src/bzflag/playing.cxx-orig	Tue Mar  8 15:03:12 2005
+++ src/bzflag/playing.cxx	Sun Apr 17 10:12:31 2005
@@ -5911,6 +5911,7 @@

    // catch kill signals before changing video mode so we can
    // put it back even if we die.  ignore a few signals.
+  bzSignal(SIGFPE, SIG_IGN);
    bzSignal(SIGILL, SIG_PF(dying));
    bzSignal(SIGABRT, SIG_PF(dying));
    bzSignal(SIGSEGV, SIG_PF(dying));


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--- src/bzflag/playing.cxx-orig	Tue Mar  8 15:03:12 2005
+++ src/bzflag/playing.cxx	Sun Apr 17 10:12:31 2005
@@ -5911,6 +5911,7 @@
 
   // catch kill signals before changing video mode so we can
   // put it back even if we die.  ignore a few signals.
+  bzSignal(SIGFPE, SIG_IGN);
   bzSignal(SIGILL, SIG_PF(dying));
   bzSignal(SIGABRT, SIG_PF(dying));
   bzSignal(SIGSEGV, SIG_PF(dying));

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