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Date:      Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:48:02 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        SHUDO Kazuyuki <shudoh@muraoka.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: jre1.1.7 core dump on FreeBSD 3.1 (intel)
Message-ID:  <199903111748.KAA15671@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199903110420.NAA03845@cafe.muraoka.info.waseda.ac.jp>
References:  <199903110107.SAA12226@mt.sri.com> <199903110420.NAA03845@cafe.muraoka.info.waseda.ac.jp>

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> > > When
> > > I run either java or jre, I get a "Floating point exception" and I get a
> > > core file.
> 
> > None that I'm aware of.  Are you using a 386 box or something that might
> > cause floating point exceptions?
> 
> FreeBSD don't mask some floating point exceptions which
> are masked on initial state of x87. Overflow(OM),
> Devided by zero(ZM) and illegal operation(IM) aren't
> masked.
> 
> Does JDK for FreeBSD change these FPU exception masks
> from default value?

It may, but I don't have the code handy to see.  However, just recently
I saw some code that did a (0.0/0.0), and it worked fine in the FreeBSD
JDK (although it was calculated at compile time.)


Nate


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